June 1 (UPI) -- At least seven people, including the suspected shooter, are dead Monday following a series of shootings in an Iowa city that authorities said stemmed from a domestic dispute.
The suspect was identified as Ryan Willis McFarland, 52, of Muscatine, located along the eastern Iowa border with Illinois.
Authorities said he shot six people, all believed to be family members, before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound that was fired after being confronted by police on the Riverfront Trail near a pedestrian bridge.
"Today, I simply do not have the words [for] this act of evil and what it has done to our community," Muscatine Police Chief Anthony Kies told reporters at a press briefing.
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