Serial Killer in Alabama

1. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/03/10/2009-03-10_alabama_shooting_spree_suspect_michael_m.html
2. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/03/11/2009-03-11_michael_mclendon_gunman_who_killed_10_se.html

The article I tracked is about a man named Michael McLendon. He is considered a serial killer but all of his murders occurred on the same day right before he killed himself. McLendon is said to have burned down his mother's home while she was in it and then drove to his grandparents home and shot both of his grandparents, his aunt, and his uncle. After that, he drove around the town shooting people, two of which happened to be the sheriff deputy's wife and 18 month-old child. After killing 10 victims from his Mitsubishi Eclipse, he went to Reliable, which is a manufacturing metal supply factory that he once worked at. Cops caught him there and after firing 30 rounds at the officers, he shot himself.

The article focuses more on the cases than the serial killer because all of the cases occurred on the same day and it is very clearly uncharacteristic of Geneva, Alabama. The article says that the man was from Alabama and in his 30's, but not much else was mentioned about him. There were no nationwide statistics mentioned.

After realizing there was not much mentioned about the serial killer or law enforcement, I went to a related link. The second link I posted says that McLendon was an ex-cop and the law enforcement that was involved in this case found a list written by McLendon, of people who had "done him wrong". (Coffee County District Attorney Gary McAliley.)

There was some information about the victims, such as the fact that 5 of his victims were family members, including his mother, grandparents, aunt and uncle. The second article says that his aunt was not killed but his two cousins were. The other victims, besides the sheriff's wife and child, were random people and the article said very little about them. The community in which this occurred was in uproar because, as mentioned in the second article, this case is the worst mass murder by one killer in Alabama history.