HARALSON COUNTY, Ga. — Two men are dead and a third injured during a triple shooting at a home in Haralson County Thursday.
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The Haralson County Sheriff’s office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation were at a home on Moeser Road in Tallapoosa, where deputies said they responded to reports of a shooting.
Officers found two men inside the home. Dillion Dobbs, 21, was dead in a bedroom. Joseph Dobbs, 20, was found with a gunshot wound to the head. He was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. His condition has not been released.
When they got to the home, officers said Nathan Larry Mayfield came out of the house with a pistol in his hand. As he was talking to police, he shot himself in the head.
Channel 2′s Tyisha Fernandes talked to a neighbor, who said he heard that Mayfield shot his two autistic grandchildren before getting into a standoff with police and shooting himself in the head.
“This little town and this little road right here, that’s insane,” the neighbor said.
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