Before killing six people at an East Texas campsite this weekend, William Hudson, 33, befriended his victims and helped dig one of their vehicles out of some mud, Anderson County Sheriff Greg Taylor said Tuesday.

Taylor said there were “several different crime scenes” but did not comment on a motive, the Associated Press reports. Two of the bodies were found in a travel camper and the other four were pulled from a pond on Hudson’s property.

“One of the vehicles became stuck and he pulled them out and they gathered around the camp and hung out together,” he said, according to CBS News. “I’ve been in law enforcement for 31 years and I’ve never seen anything like this.”

From the AP:

The victims were part of a blended family that had come from as far away as California for a weekend together to camp on wooded land that 46-year-old Thomas Kamp had purchased in August, according to Steven Woodruff, who was Kamp’s uncle.

The land was adjacent to property owned by Hudson and his family about 100 miles southeast of Dallas, Taylor said.

Kamp had lived for several years in Midlothian, south of Dallas, with Hannah Johnson, 40, and her 6-year-old son Kade. They were joined last weekend by Johnson’s parents, Carl and Cynthia Johnson, and Kamp’s two adult sons from a previous marriage, Nathan and Austin Kamp, who were California residents. The family also was celebrating Nathan Kamp’s approaching 24th birthday.

Having somehow escaped the attack, Cynthia Johnson hid in the woods and called 911.

Hudson has only been charged with one count of murder so far, although more are pending. He was arrested at his mother’s house, which is next door to his own, and is being held on $2.5 million bond.

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