Welch said it’s unclear if the gun was obtained legally. He also said a motive for the deadly shooting was not yet known.
Local police identified the gunman as Robert Crayton Jr., who had a history of mental illness before the gunfire began inside a home Saturday morning. The 45-year-old man’s wife Athalia Crayton, 46, and children, Kasin Crayton and two other unidentified minors, 16 and 10, were all killed, according to High Point police.
Two other people, a relative and an acquaintance were able to escape from the home and knocked on neighbors’ doors seeking help, High Point police said. Both survivors – a man and a woman – are in their 20s.on WFMY-TV that loved ones of the slain family told police Robert Crayton suffered from mental illness. In January 2022, he was served an involuntary mental commitment order, Welch said. He said police believe the family took out the mental commitment order.
“They have not told us any information that he was necessarily a violent person on a daily basis,” Welch said of talks with the family’s relatives. “The only information that we have up to this point is that he was suffering with some mental illness.”WFMY News 2 Welch said it’s unclear if the gun was obtained legally. He also said a motive for the deadly shooting inside the home was not yet known.
“I’ve expressed this to the family as we may never know why,” he said. “What goes through the hearts and minds of a person who would do this sometimes dies with him.”
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