Montana man killed 8 relatives, including 4 kids, at Sunday dinner - NBC Montana

Brad Ireland, whose former wife and two children were among the dead, identified Smith as the shooter and told the Associated Press that Smith's parents had asked him to move out weeks before the attack. Smith returned Sunday and opened fire. His parents were also killed.

The victims spanned four generations, from a great-grandmother in her 90s who used a wheelchair to young children. The gathering was a routine family dinner that turned into one of the deadliest family mass killings in recent Montana history.

Eight people dead at a Sunday dinner table is the kind of story that stops you cold, and the detail that makes it worse is how ordinary the night was supposed to be. A family ate together every week, asked a troubled member to leave their home, and that act of ordinary boundary-setting appears to have cost them everything.

Ireland confirmed to the AP that his former wife and two of his own children were among the eight dead, making him one of the few survivors left to piece together what happened to a family that now spans four graves instead of four generations.