NEWTON, Kan. (AP) — A central Kansas sheriff says a suspect who gunned down three other men in a home before being fatally shot by a police officer apparently targeted his victims.

Harvey County Sheriff Chad Gay didn’t elaborate about the slayings he called “very much a targeted thing” early Thursday in Newton, about 25 miles north of Wichita.

The names of the dead, a possible motive and the relationship between the shooter and victims weren’t released.

Authorities said officers responding to reports of a shooting found three bodies in a home, and that three witnesses pointed officers in the direction the suspect ran. Sheriff’s officials say the suspect confronted the officers with a shotgun, and one of the officers shot him.

The suspect was pronounced dead at a hospital. No officers were injured.

Authorities are questioning a woman who may have been involved. Boese provided no details about the woman.