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Police Say Muscatine, Iowa Man

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Drawn.News visual brief: Police Say Muscatine, Iowa Man Shot 6 Relatives Before Killing Himself
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The man, Ryan Willis McFarland, 52, was confronted by the police, who said the killings followed a domestic dispute.

  1. Frame 1Police put six Muscatine family killings under a domestic-dispute investigation, with students, employees, and relatives facing public safety pressure.
  2. Frame 2Officers found four people fatally shot at a Muscatine home about 50 miles southeast of Cedar Rapids.
  3. Frame 3Police later found two more men, believed to be relatives, at a separate home and inside a business.
  4. Frame 4Officers encountered Ryan Willis McFarland on a riverfront trail; police say he died by suicide while they spoke to him.
  5. Frame 5The school district said two victims were students and two were employees, tying the killings to classrooms and colleagues.
  6. Frame 6Investigators' next task is the domestic-dispute timeline: how one family attack spread across home, business, trail, and school community.
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