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Monday, July 4, 2011

Man kills 4, then self, S.C. police say

WAGENER -- The search for a "quadruple murder suspect" is over because the suspect is "deceased," according to a transmission over a police radio frequency early Sunday morning.
The report could not be immediately confirmed.
Saturday night, Aiken County Sheriff's Capt. Charles Barranco told the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle that a search for 46-year-old Ken Meyers had been launched after the discovery that three people had been slain at a home in rural Aiken County near the town of Wagener.
Fifty officers were canvassing the area Saturday night.
Police believe the victims were shot around 6 p.m. Saturday.
Police radio transmissions initially referred to three slayings, but shortly after midnight Sunday an update was broadcast to law officers announcing that Meyers had become a "quadruple murder suspect." No further details were available.

The coroner identified the dead as Myers’s wife, 25-year-old Angela Myers; her twin sister, Tabitha Brown; her mother, 50-year-old Vicki Brown; and Myers’s ex-wife, 47-year-old Esther Baldwin. All four died from single gunshots.

The chase started as officers checked on several additional people they thought Myers might want to hurt, Barranco said.

Investigators are trying to piece together why Myers might have gone on the killing spree. Deputies weren’t immediately familiar with him before Saturday night.

“It’s hard to say at this point in the investigation why those people were killed,’’ Barranco said.

Phone calls to several listings related to Myers were not answered yesterday morning.

Some threats Myers made toward others have been uncovered, but investigators said the first people they talked to during the investigation did not think Myers would turn violent, Barranco said.

The first three bodies were discovered in a secluded rural home near Wagener, about 40 miles east of Augusta, Ga. Deputies going to check on another person living nearby discovered the fourth body a few hours later, authorities said.

Investigators initially thought Myers might be heading for Alabama before finding him not far from where all the killings took place.

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