A family holiday in Omaha, Nebraska, ended in multiple homicides on December 26, 2017, when 70-year-old John Dalton Sr. and his wife 65-year-old Jean Dalton, along with an 18-year-old niece, Leonna Dalton-Phillip, were fatally shot at the Dalton home. A six-year-old niece survived by hiding under a couch and later identified Uncle JJ as the shooter. Dalton Jr. fled the state and was arrested the next day in Jackson, Tennessee.

He had a prior homicide conviction from 1998, for which he served 11 years for manslaughter and was paroled in 2010. Reports say Dalton Jr. pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and multiple weapons charges and received three consecutive life terms plus an additional 230 years; prosecutors and family have said motive was never fully explained.

Did anyone in the Omaha area have contact with the family around the holidays or information about tensions within the household?