A 19-year-old boy, Dylan Westerburg has gunned down his 42-year-old mother and two neighbours before turning the gun on himself and pulling the trigger.

This incident happened in their home near Uvalde, about 85 miles west of San Antonio in Texas. Authorities arrived at the scene after a teenage witness called them.

Uvalde County Sheriff, Charlie Mendeke has confirmed the incident. He said Dylan Westerburg shot his mother Friday afternoon in their home and then went next door and killed two brothers, Authur Norton and Phinny Norton before killing himself. Westerburg lived with his mother in a small cabin about 20 yards from the Norton’s mobile home on the brothers’ property.

Investigators haven’t established a clear motive for the shootings.

Mandeke said 60-year-old Phinny had some sort of romantic relationship with Westerburg’s mother, Jennifer Diane Jacques. Deputies had been called in times past to the brother’s property because of domestic dispute, but nothing violent as this.


When officers arrived the scene and heard another gunshot they started evacuating people nearby because they weren’t sure if there were multiple gunmen or whether the gunman was dead.

It was during that search that they found Jacques’ body. The family’s dog had also been killed.

Mendeke said he called in about 50 to 60 officers from different agencies as well as a Texas Department of Public Safety SWAT team out of caution. Authorities closed the road leading to the property and they stayed there overnight.

On Saturday afternoon, the SWAT team eventually entered the Nortons’ mobile home and found the corpses of the Norton brothers and Westerburg. “Westerburg had shot himself in the head”, reported Mandeke.

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