Six dead after killing spree in Kentucky

A U.S. man has killed himself after shooting dead five people, including his wife and stepdaughter, in an argument about his breakfast.

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Sunday, 12.09.2010.

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A U.S. man has killed himself after shooting dead five people, including his wife and stepdaughter, in an argument about his breakfast. Stanley Neace, 47, went on the killing spree in a trailer park in Jackson, rural Breathitt County, Kentucky. Six dead after killing spree in Kentucky He chased his wife into a neighbouring trailer where he shot her, her daughter and three witnesses, reports say. State troopers found Neace dead at the porch of his trailer, slumped over his own gun. Neace flew into a rage when his wife Sandra, 54, brought him some eggs for breakfast, a relative of the neighbors he killed said. Neace's daughter Sandra Strong, 28, was also killed. The other victims were named as neighbours Dennis Turner, 31, Teresa Fugate, 30, and Tammy Kilborn, 40. Fugate was shot in front of her seven-year-old daughter, who Neace spared. "Her daughter said, 'Please, please don't shoot me,' and he said, 'All right, you can leave,' and she ran out," Fugate's sister Sherri Anne Robinson told the Associated Press. Kiborn was another neighbour who stepped out onto her porch during the commotion, reports said. Neace apparently waited an hour for the police to arrive before turning the gun on himself, police heard the shot as they drove up to the trailer. Other neighbors had fled in terror during the rampage. Breathitt county is Kentucky's rural eastern region, where gun ownership numbers are high. "Over eggs? I thought that was crazy. I mean just because his eggs weren't hot?" Robinson said.

Six dead after killing spree in Kentucky

He chased his wife into a neighbouring trailer where he shot her, her daughter and three witnesses, reports say.

State troopers found Neace dead at the porch of his trailer, slumped over his own gun.

Neace flew into a rage when his wife Sandra, 54, brought him some eggs for breakfast, a relative of the neighbors he killed said.

Neace's daughter Sandra Strong, 28, was also killed.

The other victims were named as neighbours Dennis Turner, 31, Teresa Fugate, 30, and Tammy Kilborn, 40.

Fugate was shot in front of her seven-year-old daughter, who Neace spared.

"Her daughter said, 'Please, please don't shoot me,' and he said, 'All right, you can leave,' and she ran out," Fugate's sister Sherri Anne Robinson told the Associated Press.

Kiborn was another neighbour who stepped out onto her porch during the commotion, reports said.

Neace apparently waited an hour for the police to arrive before turning the gun on himself, police heard the shot as they drove up to the trailer.

Other neighbors had fled in terror during the rampage.

Breathitt county is Kentucky's rural eastern region, where gun ownership numbers are high.

"Over eggs? I thought that was crazy. I mean just because his eggs weren't hot?" Robinson said.

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