tell that he was dead. >> he thinks his cousin and wife were killed quickly, their car and washing machine still running, their 13-year-old son alive and terrified in a back bedroom. >> he's in shock. >> i would say. >> the house one of six crime scenes and nine deaths, seven people shot and killed, four from the same family, less than three miles apart. the gunman's mother apparently dead of natural causes, police investigating if her death somehow triggered the rampage. >> you know what, that's -- in our job we see a lot of stuff and this is bad. this is also hard on the police officers who are working there. it's not natural to see that sort of thing. >> the missouri state highway patrol says the gunman joseph aldridge, killed himself. authorities say he had only a minor criminal history, nothing to forshadow something like