Mass funeral held for 7 Ga. mobile home victims

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September 5, 2009

The Associated Press Associated Press Sat Sep 05, 2009, 05:45 PM EDT

TOWNSEND, Ga. — Dozens of relatives are gathering for graveside funeral to bury seven people massacred inside their mobile home in coastal Georgia.

Meanwhile, mourners attending the funeral Saturday in rural McIntosh County are still in shock from the arrest of a 22-year-old relative in the killings of his own father, aunt, uncle and cousins. Police charged Guy Heinze Jr. with eight counts of murder Friday night.

Wendell Young, a relative attending the funeral, said he was sickened at the thought that Heinze would kill his own family.

Seven caskets were lined up beneath a large tent for 44-year-old Rusty Toler Sr., his four children and two siblings. One of them, 45-year-old Guy Heinze Sr., was the father of the suspect charged in the killings.

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