Five people were found fatally shot late Friday at a home in South Georgia, prompting an ongoing police investigation. Officers responding to a residence on Robin Lane in the Touchton Woods neighborhood around 11:09 p.m. discovered five individuals who appeared to have suffered gunshot wounds, the Douglas Police Department (DPD) said in a social media post. Local news outlet Douglas Now reported that investigators are treating the incident as an apparent murder-suicide.
Police had not publicly identified the victims or released information regarding a suspect as of Saturday morning. The Coffee County Sheriff's Office described the incident as a “terrible tragedy,” in a statement to FOX 5 Atlanta. And please pray for all of our first responders who were there last night.
This was a hard scene for everybody involved.” Douglas is in Coffee County in southern Georgia, about 115 miles northwest of Jacksonville, Florida. It has a population of about 11,864, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s July 2025 estimate.
Newsweek reached out to DPD and the Coffee County Sheriff’s office by email Saturday for more information. The deaths come after several recent incidents involving multiple shooting victims in Georgia and a mass shooting Friday night in Erie, Pennsylvania, that saw the death of nine people, including two children. The Gun Violence Archive (GVA) defines a mass shooting as an incident in which at least four people are shot, either injured or killed, excluding the shooter.
The Coffee County deaths marked the third consecutive weekend in which Georgia authorities had reported a mass shooting or other incident of multi-victim gun violence. A shooting at a homecoming celebration in Vienna, Georgia, about 80 miles northwest of Douglas, left two people dead and another 35 injured last weekend. The shooting began at about 1:25 a.m. at a neighborhood party spanning four blocks.
A separate shooting at an 18th birthday party at Carolyn Crayton Park in Macon on September 27 injured 12 teenagers. Five suspects had been charged in connection with that shooting at the time of its report, including a 15-year-old who was charged as an adult, according to FOX 5 Atlanta. Macon is about 60 miles north of Vienna and about 115 miles north of Douglas.
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