GAFFNEY (Times Online) - A serial killer is terrorising a rural community in the United States, where a 15-year-old girl has become the fifth person to be murdered in the last week.
Abby Leigh Tyler died on Saturday morning, two days after she was wounded and her father Stephen Tyler killed when a gunman opened fire as they were closing the family business, the Tyler Home Centre, in the South Carolina city of Gaffney on Thursday.
Police have linked their deaths with three other shootings, all of which took place within a 10 mile (16 km) radius in Cherokee Country.
Cherokee County Sheriff Bill Blanton said police were now hunting a serial killer, and released an identikit picture of the man police believe is the gunman.
The killing spree began on Saturday June 27 when prominent local peach farmer Kline Cash, 63, was found by his wife Vickie shot dead in the couple's rural home in Cherokee County. On Wednesday Gena Linder Parker, 50, and her 83-year-old mother Hazel Linder were found bound and shot to death at Mrs Linder's home, a few miles away from the Cash's farm.
