8 Dead in Trailer Slaying All From One Family
Police release the names of the dead, but don't say if there's a suspect.
Sept. 1, 2009— -- All eight people massacred in a south Georgia mobile home park were members of a single extended family, police said today, finally releasing the identities of the victims of a crime called the worst in area history.
Glynn County Police Department released the names and ages of those killed, but not of the sole survivor of the attack at the New Hope Plantation Mobile Home Park, near Brunswick, Ga., which was discovered Saturday morning by the son of one of the victims.
Police have declined to describe the cause of death or speculate on possible motives, and also have not named a suspect.
Among the dead identified today was Guy Heinze Sr., 45, the father of the man whose chilling description of the scene in a 911 call after he found the bodies Saturday was released Monday.
Others apparently bludgeoned to death were five nuclear members of the Toler family, including Russell D. Toler Sr., 44, and his four children: Chrissy Toler, 22; Russell D. Toler Jr., 20; Michael Toler, 19; and Michelle Toler, 15. Also killed were Joseph L. West, 30, and Brenda Gail Falagan, 49, the sister of Toler Sr.
Heinze Jr. had to be coaxed to the phone by a neighbor he had run to after finding the bodies, but once he got on the line with the 911 operator said he had arrived at the mobile home to find his family members dead and bleeding.
"My whole family is dead," he said. "It looks like they've been beaten to death, but I don't know, man."
In that frantic 911 tape, Guy Heinze Jr. could be heard yelling, "Michael's alive, tell them to hurry," referring to Michael Toler, a 19-year-old with Down Syndrome. Michael Toler died in the next day in a Savannah Hospital.
Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering said at a news conference Monday that police are hunting at least one suspect, but answered most reporters' questions with a terse "I can't answer that," or "no comment."
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