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A man who reported a disturbance at a Georgia trailer park where seven people were found killed and two critically injured has been arrested on drug possession and evidence tampering charges, police said Sunday.
Glynn County, Georgia police chief Matt Doering identified the man in custody as Guy Heinze Jr., who he said "is currently being held in the Glynn County Detention Center without bond."
Heinze made a call to the emergency 911 line that led police to the New Hope mobile park Saturday morning where they found bodies of seven people and two others injured, reportedly the victims of a shooting.
He was arrested by Glynn County investigators later Saturday evening and charged with the illegal possession of marijuana and the drug Darvocet, tampering with evidence, and obstruction of an officer, the police chief said.
It was unclear whether he was also wanted in connection with the murders, although police had earlier said they had a suspect in the case.
"The victims have tentatively been identified," Doerring said in a statement, withholding their names until their identities have been confirmed and family members notified.
Lieutenant David O'Neal of the Glynn County department said police received a 911 call shortly after 8:00 am (1200 GMT) Saturday "of multiple deceased persons found in a mobile home in the New Hope mobile park."
"Officers responded and upon entry found multiple persons deceased and two persons critically injured," he told AFP.
There were no immediate details on how the seven people died, or the chain of events in the trailer park in Brunswick, Georgia, about 70 miles (115 kilometers) south of Savannah.
"The investigation is a homicide investigation," O'Neal said. "The coroner pronounced the victims deceased at 10:30 am (1430 GMT)."
However, an official close to the investigation "said they had been shot," according to the local Brunswick News newspaper.
The killings jolted Brunswick, which is known as a peaceful, low-crime community.
"There has not been such a number of victims that I know in the history of this county," Doering told the Brunswick News.
The killing at the New Hope trailer park, described on its website as a 250-acre former plantation of pine trees and pecan groves, is the latest in a spate of mass killings in the United States.
In August, a Pennsylvania man embittered by what he described as constant rejection by women, walked into a health club and opened fire on a dance class, killing three women before turning the gun on himself in Greenhill, Alabama.
