Fwd: One Gun.

Shooting Spree Terrifies Small Ala. Towns

At least 10 people were killed Tuesday afternoon in a shooting rampage in southern Alabama by a lone gunman, according to the FBI.

Jim Stromenger of the Samson, Ala., police department said the shootings occurred in at least four separate locations in two towns. No motive is known at this time, he said.

It is believed that the gunman, who was not immediately identified by police, shot a man and a woman at a gas station. Their condition was not immediately known.

He then went to a private home where he killed at least five people on the porch, Stromenger said.

Stromenger said the shooter drove the 12 miles from Samson east to Geneva "and apparently he shot some people there and he made it to Reliable Metal and that's where the incident ended."

After he fired at a state trooper, police pursued the gunman to Reliable Metal, where he fired an estimated 30 rounds. One of the bullets hit the Geneva police chief, who was saved by his bullet proof vest, the Alabama safety department said in a statement.

The gunman then went into the plant and shot himself, the AP reported.

Reliable Metal Products makes grills and vents for heating and AC systems, mainly for hotels. A call to a person who answered the phone at the plant said no one could talk about the shooting, according to the AP.

The towns of Geneva and Samson are roughly 30 miles south of Fort Rucker, near the Florida border in southeast Alabama. Geneva's population is about 4,400 and Samson, 2,000.

Geneva County coroner Max Motley said he was called to the Big Little Store on West Main Street in Samson, where he found the body of a woman between the gas pump and the front door, the Dothan, Ala., Eagle's Web site reported. She was found face up with at least one fatal gunshot wound.

Geneva County deputies rammed the suspect's Mitsubishi Eclipse in front of Alabama Title Loans on Highway 52, near Wal-Mart according to the Eagle.

With reporting by Erin Donovan of ABC News.

One man with a gun can do all this, one man (or woman) with a gun could have stopped all this. Laws that restrict weapons will only affect the law abiding. And frankly, I don't worry too much about them.