Published: March 20, 2006 01:03 pm      

Three killed in Forsyth County shooting

CUMMING, Ga. (AP) — Two people were arrested Monday in a shooting that killed three and left four others injured at a home.

Killed in the Sunday night shooting were a woman and two men. Their names were not immediately released.

The victims apparently knew their attackers and information from the survivors led deputies to the two men who were arrested, Forsyth County Sheriff Ted Paxton said. Their names were not immediately released.

Paxton said he believed the information deputies received would lead to a third suspect.

Ten people were in the two-story house when the suspects entered shortly after 9 p.m., said Capt. Frank Huggins, spokesman for the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office.

Someone inside the house called 911 during the attack, Paxton said.

“The 911 operator lost verbal contact with the person, but could still hear gunshots in the background,” he said.

Some of the victims were also stabbed, authorities said.

Two people were able to hide inside the home and avoid injury, and another survivor ran from the house.

Paxton said that while investigators were not ruling anything out regarding a motive for the attack, “our narcotics unit is familiar with this house and familiar with some of the people here at this house.”

He said his department’s drug unit had been to the house in the past.