US: Police ‘have found’ gunman who killed five in South Carolina

The attack left five dead, including two children, and a motive was not immediately known.

A gunman killed five people including a prominent doctor and his grandchildren in South Carolina, prompting an hours-long search that led to a suspect in a nearby home, according to authorities. The York County coroner’s office said Dr Robert Lesslie, 70, and his wife, Barbara Lesslie, 69, were pronounced dead at the scene along with grandchildren nine-year-old Adah Lesslie and five-year-old Noah Lesslie. A man who had been working at the home, James Lewis, 38, from Gaston, was found shot dead outside, and a sixth person was hospitalised with “serious gunshot wounds”, York County Sheriff’s Office’s spokesperson Trent Faris said, according to The Associated Press.