One evening in January 2009, Athens-Clarke County police officers responded to the Hallmark Estates mobile home park on a resident’s report that a bullet fired from a neighboring home went through a window of his trailer.
When police arrived they surrounded the home from which the gunfire originated and were preparing to go in when John David Latimer came out holding a handgun.
After officers disarmed him, they went inside the trailer discovered a grisly scene.
Latimer’s brother and two sisters had been fatally shot. One of the women had also been stabbed with a sword.