Eight members of a single family have been shot to death in rural Ohio. Authorities say seven adults and a 16-year-old, all members of the Rhoden family, were shot in the head, execution-style, most while they slept. They were killed early Friday at four crime scenes within a short distance of each other. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said the shootings were not random.

Mike DeWine: “This was a preplanned execution of eight individuals. It was a sophisticated operation. And those who carried it out were trying to do everything that they could do to hinder the investigation and their prosecution.”

Meanwhile in Georgia, a man is suspected of fatally shooting five people at two separate locations, then killing himself as part of what authorities described as a domestic dispute. Wayne Anthony Hawes reportedly killed a number of his wife’s relatives after she left him.