A person of interest has been questioned in the killings last week of four family members at a trailer park in a small city in Georgia, according to the authorities, who said on Monday that they could not recall a quadruple homicide having occurred there before.
Investigators say that the victims, whose ages ranged from 2 to 82, were discovered during a wellness check on Friday evening at the Timberline Mobile Home Park in Perry, Ga., a community of about 24,000 residents roughly 100 miles south of Atlanta.
Three of them had been stabbed and a fourth was suffocated, Capt. Jason Jones, a spokesman for the Perry Police Department, said in a phone interview on Monday. The person of interest, a man, knew at least one of the victims, and the killings appeared to have stemmed from a domestic dispute, he said.
The police said the killings appeared to have been an isolated crime and said that there was no active danger to the community.
“We may have one or two homicides a year at the most,” Captain Jones said. “That type of violence is just not commonplace here in Perry or in Houston County.”
The authorities identified the victims on Monday as Tuquondea Robinson, 37; Michelle Joiner, 51; Beaulah Robinson, 82; and A’laoiah Joiner, a 2-year-old girl.
The three adults were immediate family members: a grandmother, her daughter and granddaughter, Capt. Jones said. The toddler had been staying with them because of domestic issues, which he said were unrelated to the killings.
The eldest of the four victims, Ms. Robinson, had been bedridden and was suffocated, Captain Jones said.
Local law enforcement officers said that they were working with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to solve the crime.
“We’ve still got several pieces of the puzzle to put together,” Captain Jones said.
