AUCIER — SAUCIER — The man accused of killing three of his family members is hospitalized and under guard, but has been arrested on three counts of murder. The three bodies were found this morning.
Harrison County Sheriff’s Capt. Ron Pullen said Justice Court Judge Diane Ladner set bonds for Marty Saucier at a total of $15 million.
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Saucier needs surgery, Pullen said, and investigators have not been able to question him yet.
Marty Saucier, suspect in a triple homicide in Saucier.
Authorities do not yet have a booking mug of him, but have released his driver’s license picture.
Sheriff Melvin Brisolara said Saucier had been having problems with his parents, and his mother in particular. “I think today was just the breaking point,” the sheriff said.
Saucier, 32, was taken to Memorial Hospital at Gulfport earlier today after his capture by deputies with dogs and automatic rifles.
He is accused of fatally shooting his parents, Kenny and Kay Saucier, and his brother, Matt Saucier. Saucier faces three counts of murder, authorities said.
Brisolara said Marty Saucier lived at the same home along with his two young children, but had left his children at their other grandmother’s house before the shootings.
He texted his grandmother this morning, saying he had killed his family, Brisolara said, and the woman called authorities at 8:35 a.m.
Deputies at first found only two dead on the property. Brisolara said Saucier’s mother was found on the first floor of the home. His brother was found upstairs. Later, they found his father in a shed he used as a workshop.
Marty Saucier was holding a .22-caliber gun to his head as deputies tried to negotiate with him early this afternoon, Brisolara said.
They found him in woods near a creek where his family had set up a camp for outdoor enjoyment.
Marty Saucier refused to put his gun down, so deputies deployed their K-9 service dogs on him, Brisolara said. He had dog bites on his face and one arm, and was grazed on his chin by his own bullet when he dropped his gun, the sheriff said.
The sheriff’s helicopter flew over the area looking for the man, until K-9 teams reported they had found him. A Mississippi Bureau of Investigation crime-scene unit arrived to help collect evidence. Brisolara said it was likely MBI and deputies will remain on the scene throughout the afternoon.
The brick home is on a dirt road about a half-mile off B Saucier Road. It’s near Saucier-Lizana Road in a heavily wooded area of north Harrison County.
Family members and friends, who arrived in about 50 cars, gathered off the dirt road but out of sight from the house.
“How could anyone do this? It would be bad enough if a stranger did it,” said family member Beverly Weekley. “I’ve lost my brother, sister-in-law and one nephew and don’t know what will happen to the other nephew.”
“They locked him in the shed,” she said earlier Tuesday morning, collapsing in tears after learning her brother’s body had just been found.
Brisolara said Saucier left a suicide note.
