A man in the US reportedly became enraged by how his wife cooked his eggs and killed her, his stepdaughter and three neighbours with a shotgun before shooting himself.

Kentucky state police said Stanley Neace killed the five people in two mobile homes in the community of Mount Carmel, outside Jackson, about 145km southeast of Lexington, yesterday.

They added that the 47-year-old then went to his home and turned the gun on himself.

Neighbours in the roadside mobile home park said Mr Neace stormed across the lawns of about seven homes in his pyjamas and fired dozens of shots from a 12-gauge pump shotgun.

When state police arrived about an hour after the gunfire began, they heard a single gunshot and found Mr Neace's body on the porch.

A relative of two of the victims said witnesses to the shootings told her that Mr Neace became enraged when his wife did not cook his breakfast to his liking.

She said that when his wife fled to a neighbour's trailer, Mr Neace followed and shot her and the others.

The witnesses also told her he allowed a young girl to flee.

The victims were identified as the gunman's wife, Sandra Neace, 54; her daughter Sandra R Strong, 28; and neighbours Dennis Turner, 31; Teresa Fugate, 30; and Tammy Kilborn, 40.

The shooter's landlord said he had begun the process of evicting Mr Neace, who had lived in the trailer park for about seven years, because he had become increasingly hostile towards neighbours in recent months.

