Monday night's shooting in Jackson that left two dead - including a young girl and the suspected adult male shooter - and injured three others is among the worst in recent history in Southeast Missouri.
In 1992, then 38-year-old Andrew Lyons of Cape Girardeau, was convicted of killing his infant son, girlfriend and the girlfriend's mother.
In that same year, Gary Lee Roll and two others were charged with killing Sherry Scheper and her sons, 17-year-old Randy and 22-year-old Curtis, in their Cape Girardeau home.
Rolls was convicted and executed in 2000.
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