Sheriff's office: Mississippi man hunted down ex, kidnapped her, murdered 5

A 27-year-old Mississippi man murdered five people, including a pregnant woman, at a home in rural Alabama early on Saturday before kidnapping his estranged girlfriend and a 3-month-old, authorities said on Sunday.Derrick Dearman is facing six counts of capital murder - including the unborn child - after breaking into the house in Citronelle, Alabama, where his former girlfriend had been staying in an effort to get away from him, according to Paul Burch, a spokesman for the Mobile County Sheriffs Office.Burch said a resident of the home called 911 between midnight and 1 a.m. on Saturday to report that Dearman was trespassing on the property. Dearman fled before officers arrived and could not be found.Later that night, Burch said, Dearman returned to the house and attacked the occupants while they were sleeping, using multiple weapons, including guns.He kidnapped his estranged girlfriend and a 3-month-old child who belonged to one of the victims from the home and drove them to Mississippi, Burch said. Following a conversation with his father, Dearman released the woman and infant and turned himself into authorities.Burch said Dearman is cooperating with investigators.The woman, meanwhile, returned to Citronelle, a community of some 3,900 people, 30 miles (48 km) north-northwest of Mobile, and told police there what had happened.One of the victims was the girlfriends sister, Burch said. The names of the victims had not yet been released, and Burch said police were still determining the precise relationships between them.Dearman is still in custody in Mississippi and will likely be extradited to Alabama this week, Burch said.Join the conversation about this story
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