Six shot dead after row over eggs

A KENTUCKY man who was facing eviction over his anti-social behaviour became enraged by how his wife cooked his eggs and killed her, his stepdaughter and three neighbours with a shotgun before shooting himself this weekend.

Trooper Jody Sims, of the Kentucky State Police, said 47-year-old Stanley Neace killed the five people in two mobile homes in rural eastern Kentucky around 11:30am local time on Saturday, then went to his home and turned the gun on himself.

Neighbours in the roadside mobile home park said Neace stormed across the lawns of about seven homes in his pyjamas and fired dozens of shots from a 12-gauge pump shotgun.

Sims said that when state police arrived about an hour after the gunfire began, they heard a single gunshot and found Neace's body on the porch.

Sherri Anne Robinson, a relative of two of the victims, said witnesses to the shootings told her that Neace became enraged when his wife did not cook his breakfast to his liking.

Robinson said that when his wife fled to a neighbour's trailer, Neace followed and shot her and the others. Robinson says he allowed a young girl to flee.

"He just got mad at his wife for not making his breakfast right and he shot her," Robinson said. "She tried to run to tell my family and he shot them too because they found out about it."

The victims were identified as the gunman's wife, Sandra Neace, 54; her daughter Sandra R Strong, 28; and neighbours Dennis Turner, 31; Teresa Fugate, 30; and Tammy Kilborn, 40.

Landlord Ray Rastegar said he had begun the process of evicting Neace, who had lived in the trailer park for about seven years, because he had become increasingly hostile toward neighbours in recent months. "He's been trouble ever since he's been here," neighbour Steve Smith said.