Eight people, including two teenagers, were found shot to death Friday in what officials said were "execution-style killings" at several homes in this rural Ohio community.

Seven of the victims were believed to be from the same family and were found at three houses, according to a statement from Attorney General Mike DeWine and Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader. A Pike County victim's advocate said a five-day-old child and six-month-old child were found alive in one of the homes.

“This is a horrible, horrible tragedy," DeWine told WLW radio. "It looks like two teenagers dead and it looks like young, young children who must have been there when it occurred.”

Officials said the eighth body was found at a fourth location. The connection between the shooting sprees and the eighth victim was not immediately clear.

Union Mill Road, which was swarming all morning with ambulances and local and state and local police, meanders through the countryside of farms, widely spaced homes near Peebles, a town of 1,800 people 75 miles east of Cincinnati.

While the official statement said no arrests had been made and that the incident was not viewed as an active shooter situation, it said investigators were still attempting to "determine a motive, identify the deceased, and determine if the gunman is among the deceased individuals or on the loose."

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