Gunman kills six family members, then himself, in eastern Iowa, police say

A gunman killed six members of his family, then took his own life, during a spate of shootings on Monday in the eastern Iowa city of Muscatine, a waterfront town situated across the Mississippi River from Illinois, police said.

A preliminary investigation into the gun violence indicated the shootings “stemmed from a domestic-related dispute,” the Muscatine Police Department said in a statement, although no mention was made of precisely what may have precipitated the bloodshed....