A gunman shot and killed eight people before firing on law
enforcement officers and hitting a police helicopter on Tuesday in a thickly wooded area of south-central Virginia, a state police official said.
The state police identified the gunman as Christopher Speight, 39.
The authorities gathered in Appomattox, Va., near the scene where several people were shot.
Late Tuesday, state police officers said that they thought they had the gunman, whom they identified as Christopher Speight, 39, surrounded in the woods and that he was still alive.
Seven bodies were found in one house, the authorities said, and the eighth victim was found by the side of the road and died on the way to the hospital.
All the victims were adults, the police said.
A state police official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the investigation, said two of the victims were thought to be the wife and the son of the gunman. He would not give other details.
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