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A Florida man who killed six of his grandchildren, his adult daughter and himself in a mass killing at his home Thursday had spent time in prison a decade ago after the shooting death of his young son, police say.

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Don Spirit, 51, called 911 Thursday afternoon from his home in Bell, a small town outside of Gainesville, to say that he might hurt himself or others. By the time a deputy arrived on a report of a shooting, Spirit had committed suicide, according to Gilchrist County Sheriff Robert Schultz.

The bodies of his daughter and her six children were found “all over the property,” Schultz said late Thursday.

Separately, during a news conference Friday, Schultz said Don Spirit was not a legal gun owner and wasn’t on probation at the time of the killings.

Official records showed that both Spirit and his daughter had arrest records.

In 2003, a 40-year-old Spirit pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in the fatal shooting of his eight-year-old son, Kyle, according to the Orlando Sentinel. Kyle died in a 2001 hunting accident.