India, Aug. 26 -- An extremely tragic shooting at a family gathering in Billings, Montana, resulted in the death of eight people, four of which were children. It occurred on Sunday evening when the family was gathered for dinner at one of the homes in Billings.

Brad Ireland, who is a relative to the deceased, confirmed to the sources that the suspect in this case was 44-year-old Alan Smith. It is reported that the parents of Smith asked him to leave their house and Smith then came back to the family while they were having dinner and shot them.

All eight people belonged to four generations of a blended family, whose age group varied from a 7-year-old child to a great-grandmother of 90 years. Jennifer Mercer, who is a friend of the family...