Seven people were found shot dead in a house in northern Alabama late Thursday, and the authorities said they were searching for the person responsible early the next morning.

The Morgan County Sheriff’s Office said deputies and the police responded to an emergency call reporting gunshots at about 11:20 p.m. on Thursday in Valhermoso Springs, near Huntsville, Ala. They found seven adults dead and began investigating the case as a homicide, the sheriff’s office said on Twitter.

The department said that there was “no immediate threat to the public in the area,” and that the crime scene unit of the nearby Madison County Sheriff’s Office and the F.B.I.’s violent crimes task force were assisting.

Mike Swafford, the spokesman for the sheriff’s office, said on Friday that the authorities believe that the shooting was carried out by at least one person who then fled the house.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/us/morgan-county-alabama-shooting.html