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Police shoot serial killer who terrorised American town
Ed Harris07.07.09
A serial killer who brought terror to a town in the US state of South Carolina has been shot dead by police.
Patrick Tracy Burris, 41, was killed during an attempted burglary 30 miles from the town of Gaffney.
Bullets in his gun reportedly matched those used in the murders, in which five residents of Gaffney were gunned down within a few days of each other.
Police said Burris had a long criminal record and had been released on parole in April after serving eight years. They do not know the motive behind the killings. "He was unpredictable. He was scary. He was weird," the deputy director of the enforcement division, Neil Dolan, said. "We have him. He's our serial killer."
A peach farmer was killed on 27 June, an 83-year-old woman and her daughter were found bound and shot four days later, and the following day a father and his teenage daughter were shot in their family's furniture shop.
