Ohio teen kills five and himself

Ohio teen kills five and himself

Associated Press | May 31, 2005

Authorities in Bellefontaine, Ohio, said they may never find out why a teenager killed five people and himself as he was about to graduate from high school.

Preliminary evidence from this weekend's shooting at neighboring farmhouses suggests that Scott Moody went to the house next door Sunday morning and killed his grandparents with a 22-caliber rifle.

Authorities said he then returned home to shoot his mother and two friends. Police said Moody also wounded his younger sister before committing suicide.

The town's sheriff said there was no sign of a struggle at either house, and that it appeared some of the victims were killed in their sleep. Stacy Moody, who was shot in the neck, remains hospitalized in critical condition.

Bellefontaine Shootings

Fox 19 | May 31, 2005

Town struggles to get back to normal after six killed in shootings

People in the west-central Ohio town of Bellefontaine are trying to get their lives back to normal while investigators pieced together the hours before a weekend rampage that left six dead.

Authorities believe Scott Moody, 18, shot his grandparents, mother, sister and two friends before killing himself early Sunday, hours before he and one of the victims were to graduate from high school.

His sister, Stacy Moody, 15, remains in critical condition at a Columbus hospital. Tim Lyden, longtime agriculture teacher at Riverside High School in nearby De Graff, says the shootings left residents numb. Lyden and four of his other students spent part of their Memorial Day somberly tending livestock at the farm where the shootings happened. He says Scott Moody's family enjoyed entering animals in dairy shows at the state fair and other venues.

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