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Five people were found dead inside a Citronelle residence on Aug. 20, 2016. Mobile County Sheriff's Office says they were murdered, and the attacker used multiple weapons. Multiple law enforcement personnel and ambulances are on the scene. (Lawrence Specker/lspecker@al.com)
Five people were found dead Saturday afternoon inside a Citronelle home, authorities say.
A 4-month-old baby was found alive inside the residence, authorities say. One of the victims was believed to be pregnant.
The murder victims were found in a residence in the 17000 block of Jim Platt Road, police said.
Mobile County Sheriff's Capt. Paul Burch and District Attorney Ashley Rich described the crime scene as the worst they have seen in their careers due to number of bodies.
"We have a horrible scene here," Rich said.
Burch said the scene is going to take a couple of days to process.
Multiple weapons were used in the attack, he said.
A suspect, identified as Derrick Dearman, is in police custody, Burch said.
Dearmon walked into the Greene County Sheriff's Office Saturday afternoon and confessed to the crimes, he said.
Police were first notified of a possible multiple homicide by a woman who walked into the Citronelle Police Department on Saturday afternoon, he said.
The woman told police she had been kidnapped late Friday night or early Saturday morning and got away from her captor, he said.
The motive behind the slayings hasn't been released.
Robert F. Brown identified himself as the father of one of the victims, Robert Lee Brown, who was in his 20s.
"My mother was murdered in 1974. I was with her in the ambulance when she died. To have to go through this again...," he said. "If I could get my hands on (the killer), I'd kill him myself."
Nearby resident Megan Shirley said one of the women killed has a 4-month-old child. Shirley heard "through the grapevine of Citronelle" that Citronelle police had gone hunting for diapers and baby formula earlier today.
Burch said he doesn't know when the actual homicides took place. He also doesn't know if the victims were members of the same family.
This report will be updated.
AL.com reporter Lawrence Specker contributed to this report.