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Police Say Muscatine, Iowa Man
Police put six Muscatine family killings under a domestic-dispute investigation, with students, employees, and relatives facing public safety pressure
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The man, Ryan Willis McFarland, 52, was confronted by the police, who said the killings followed a domestic dispute.
- Frame 1Police put six Muscatine family killings under a domestic-dispute investigation, with students, employees, and relatives facing public safety pressure.
- Frame 2Officers found four people fatally shot at a Muscatine home about 50 miles southeast of Cedar Rapids.
- Frame 3Police later found two more men, believed to be relatives, at a separate home and inside a business.
- Frame 4Officers encountered Ryan Willis McFarland on a riverfront trail; police say he died by suicide while they spoke to him.
- Frame 5The school district said two victims were students and two were employees, tying the killings to classrooms and colleagues.
- 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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- Jun 2, 1:18 PM EDT
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