A man facing eviction over his terrible temper became so enraged by how his wife cooked his eggs that he killed her, his stepdaughter and three neighbours with a shotgun before turning the weapon on himself.
Dressed in his pyjamas, Stanley Neace, 47, went on the killing spree in a trailer park in Jackson, eastern Kentucky. The massacre happened at around 11.30am local time.
Neighbours in the roadside trailer park said Neace stormed across the lawns of several homes and fired dozens of shots from a 12-gauge pump shotgun.
When state police arrived about an hour after the gunfire began, they heard a single gunshot and found Neace's body on the porch of a trailer in the park of Mount Carmel in Breathitt County.
Sherri Anne Robinson, a relative of two of the victims, said witnesses to the shootings told her that Neace became enraged when his wife did not cook his breakfast to his liking.
Ms Robinson said that when his wife fled to a neighbour's trailer, Neace followed and shot her and the others. But he allowed a young girl to flee.
'He just got mad at his wife for not making his breakfast right and he shot her,' Ms Robinson said. 'She tried to run to tell my family and he shot them too because they found out about it.'
The victims were identified as the gunman's wife, Sandra Neace, 54; her daughter Sandra R. Strong, 28; and neighbours Dennis Turner, 31; Teresa Fugate, 30; and Tammy Kilborn, 40.
Teresa Fugate is Ms Robinson's sister, Mr Turner is her cousin and Ms Kilborn was a witness who happened to step onto the porch of another trailer when she heard the commotion.
