Police were still looking for the perpetrator of a shooting on Monday (July 5) on a golf course in the US state of Georgia, where three bodies were found this weekend according to local media.
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Five shots rang out early Saturday afternoon on land in Kennesaw, about forty kilometers north of Atlanta, according to a witness quoted by the local channel WXIA. On their arrival, the police found on the green a man shot in the head. They then discovered the bodies of two other men in the back of a pickup truck parked nearby, local police spokeswoman Shenise Barner told the Atlanta-Journal-Constitution.
The first victim is a professional golfer, Gene Siller. "
We are heartbroken in the face of this senseless murder,
" Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) President Jim Richerson said in a statement. Shortly after the shooting, the security services of a university located near the golf course had issued an "
alert
" to report the presence of an "
armed and dangerous
" man. She had been up in the evening without this individual being apprehended.
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