Multiple fatalities, including children, in Florida shooting

Updated September 19 2014 - 6:09pm, first published 2:36pm
Sheriff Robert Schultz, second from left, at a news conference after the Bell shooting. Photo: Matt Stamey
Sheriff Robert Schultz, second from left, at a news conference after the Bell shooting. Photo: Matt Stamey
An officer lowers police tape to let cars through at the scene of the shooting in Bell, Florida. Photo: Matt Stamey
An officer lowers police tape to let cars through at the scene of the shooting in Bell, Florida. Photo: Matt Stamey

A man has shot and killed his daughter and six grandchildren in the small north Florida town of Bell, in what authorities have called a murder-suicide, according to media reports.