SAMSON, Ala. AP – A gunman who killed 10 people and himself in the worst mass shooting in Alabama history had trained as a police officer and quit a job at a nearby sausage plant days before the deadly spree, authorities said Wednesday.
But as details of 28-year-old Michael McLendon’s background began to emerge the day after the bloodshed, authorities still didn’t know what set him off. And the people who might be able to explain – his mother, his grandmother, his uncle and two cousins – were among the victims.
