A professional golfer and two other men have been killed in a shooting at a country club outside Atlanta, Georgia, with the suspect still at large.
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Officers found an unresponsive man with an apparent gunshot wound to the head on Saturday afternoon near the 10th hole of the golf course at Pinetree Country Club in Kennesaw, Cobb County Police Officer Shenise Barner told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The department identified him on Sunday as country club employee and golfer Eugene Siller.
"Tragedy has stricken the Georgia Section PGA in the loss of our Member, Gene Siller. Thoughts and prayers for his family and the Pinetree Country Club family," the Georgia section of the Professional Golfers' Association of America said in a tweet.
After further investigation, police said two other dead men were discovered in the bed of a white pickup truck that was on the green.
Both also had apparent gunshot wounds.
Barner said one was identified as Paul Pierson, the registered owner of the truck. The other man has not been identified.
Police have not yet found the killer.
Neighbour John Lavender told WAGA-TV he heard "five, six booms go off" and was not sure whether it was gunshots or fireworks.
"You just don't think it's gunshots in this area," he said.
The country club is near the campus of Kennesaw State University.
The school tweeted after the shooting there were no "credible threats to campus", which lies about 40 kilometres northwest of downtown Atlanta.
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