LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- Police identified the four people who were shot and killed in a Lawrenceville neighborhood Thursday night.

The victims are Atania Butler, 28; Lakeisha Parker, 30; Rico Zimmerman, 19, and an unidentified 11-year-old girl. All but one of the victims died at the home on Clairidge Lane. Parker died at Gwinnett Medical Center, police said.

A fifth victim, a little girl, was recovering in the hospital Friday. A neighbor told CBS Atlanta she helped put the child in the ambulance and that the child told her her family is dead. The neighbor said the child was injured and hysterical.

Police arrested the suspect, Richard Ringold, 40, when he drove back to the crime scene early Friday morning, police said. He faces four counts of murder.

"He asked what we were doing and why we were looking for him," Gwinnett Police spokeswoman Illana Spellman said. She said police believed that Ringold was the boyfriend of one of the residents of the home.




Investigators said Friday afternoon that they are still looking for a motive in the shootings.

Neighbors were still trying to grasp the enormity of the shootings Friday.

Neighbor Ernest Otumi heard sounds that he later learned were gunshots.

"I heard someone crying. I thought they were arguing or playing around. I didn't know it was a gunshot until the cops came in," Otumi said.

Monae Butler lives next door. She said her son played with the children who lived in the home.

"We live in Gwinnett. It's not like we live in the ghetto, so I just think anything could happen anywhere," Butler said.