Alabama authorities in Jackson and DeKalb counties say two brothers are dead in an apparent murder-suicide that likely began Tuesday with the first shooting near Bryant, Ala.
R.C. Rush, 53, of Bryant, was found dead Tuesday night with his deer-hunting equipment in the 1500 block of County Road 290, Jackson County Chief Deputy Rocky Harnen said Wednesday.
His killer, believed to be his brother, 54-year-old Carmon Washington Rush, of Pisgah, had taken his brother’s pickup truck and left the scene, Harnen said.
The pickup and Carmon Rush’s body were found in a DeKalb County hayfield behind Ider Church of Christ on Alabama Highway 75, he said. Carmon Rush had sustained what authorities say was a self-inflicted gunshot to the head.
A specific motive is not known, but Harnen said the first shooting was intentional and likely happened during daylight hours Tuesday since R.C. Rush was hunting or had been hunting when that shooting happened, Harnen said.