Eight dead in Mississippi shootings

A man who got into an argument with his estranged wife over their children was arrested in a house-to-house shooting rampage in rural Mississippi that left eight people dead, including his mother-in-law and a sheriff’s deputy.

“I ain’t fit to live, not after what I done,” a handcuffed Willie Corey Godbolt, 35, said.

The gunfire erupted on Saturday night at a home in Bogue Chitto after the deputy arrived in response to a domestic disturbance call.

The dead included two boys, investigators said. Godbolt was hospitalised in good condition with a gunshot wound.