A golf pro who was gunned down on Saturday at a suburban Atlanta country club by a man who had driven a pickup truck onto the golf course was not the gunman’s target but was killed because he had “witnessed an active crime taking place,” the police said on Tuesday. The gunman, who the authorities said had not been identified, fled after the shooting at the Pinetree Country Club near Kennesaw, Ga., leaving behind a pickup truck that held in its bed the bodies of two other men who had been fatally shot. The gunman was still at large on Tuesday evening, three days after the shooting. The Cobb County Police Department said that investigators were still trying to determine a motive in what they were treating as a triple homicide but that there was no “active threat to the public at large and there was not a directed threat to residents of the neighborhood.”The golf pro was identified as Gene Siller, 46, a father of two young sons who was the director of golf at the country club. A GoFundMe page that was started on behalf of his family had raised more than $500,000 by Tuesday evening.

Source: New York Times July 07, 2021 00:56 UTC