McLendon Shot His Mom Execution Style

Geneva County shooter Michael Kenneth McLendon shot his mother to death execution style with a gunshot to her head, Coffee County District Attorney Gary McAliley recounted of the start of slayings Tuesday afternoon.

McAliley said it appeared the murders started outside Kinston in Coffee County and then led into Samson and Geneva. Authorities said McLendon, 28, killed 10 people then turned the gun on himself. McAliley said authorities are still looking for a woman believed to be missing in the Kinston area of Coffee County.

“He killed her execution style, and her three dogs,” McAliley said of Lisa McLendon, the shooter’s mother. “She was lying on her couch face down inside the burned house.”

Authorities found Lisa McLendon, and her three dogs, shot to death. He said one of the dogs appeared to be draped across her face, and the other two were draped across her feet.

“He killed, I believe, seven of his relatives in Samson,” McAliley said.

Two other people were also killed in Samson.

McAliley said McLendon then traveled to Reliable Metal Products on Alabama Highway 27, where he worked up until 2003.

“We believe he was trying to kill some folks there at Reliable Metal Products, but he got shot in the shoulder,” McAliley said. “He was loaded to bear. He had two pistols in his pockets and two assault rifles. It’s our opinion he saw that it was over and put the pistol in his mouth and pulled the trigger.”