Chilling security footage caught the moment a mass-shooter McDonald’s worker blasted his manager to death in Georgia — after he’d already gunned down his mom and grandma.
The killing spree by Kentavious White, 26, ended just before 6 a.m. Thursday when he shot himself dead at the fast-food restaurant in Moultrie, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said.
As-yet-unreleased surveillance footage showed that “White arrived at the restaurant” and “got his manager, Amia Smith, to come to the door,” the state agency said.
“White shot Smith, killing her. White is then seen entering the restaurant where he takes his own life with a self-inflicted gunshot,” the GBI said.
Sabrina Holweger, who works next to the McDonald’s, said Smith, 41, was the early-morning manager there — and appeared to have been gunned down while unlocking the door to let White start his shift.
Local cops were racing to the bloodbath when they first got a call that a woman “had been shot but was still alive” at a nearby home. She was taken to a local hospital, where she later died, the GBI said.
A third call then said that “an additional woman was found dead at another home next door.”
Colquitt County Coroner C. Verlyn Brock later identified the other slain women as the mass shooter’s 50-year-old mother and 74-year-old grandmother. Their names were not immediately released.
All three women had been shot multiple times, the coroner said.
“I can’t for the life of me figure out what provoked him in that way,” Brock said.
Jerry Goodwin, who lived next door to the gunman and his slain mother, said he and his wife heard shots just before 1 a.m. Thursday. Another neighbor told WALB News 10 that she heard about six to seven shots just after midnight.
It was not immediately clear if either called Moultrie police, who did not respond to comment.
However, officers had been called a week earlier when White came outside with the gun and fired a shot while shouting something, Goodwin said. It was not clear what action was taken.
Despite this, Goodwin said of White: “I had never seen him hurt anybody or try to hurt anybody before this.”
Tanner Strickland said he knew White’s slain mom and grandma.
“Both them were two of the most amazing people I’ve had the pleasure of being around,” Strickland told WALB. “They both light up any room that they walk into. Both of them really have hearts of gold.”
The Moultrie McDonald’s will remain closed until further notice, said its owner and operator, George Suarez.
“We are devastated by the loss of our beloved restaurant manager, and our hearts go out to all the victims of this senseless act of violence,” Suarez said.
The latest mass shooting in Georgia came a day after a gunman in Atlanta killed one person and wounded four others at a medical office.
Chas Cannon, Colquitt County’s government administrator, said that “a killing is pretty rare in our neck of the woods.”
“It’s surprising. But this day and time, our jail’s at capacity, our local prison’s at capacity. There’s a lot of folks breaking the law, unfortunately,” he said.
With Post wires