Mom, Daughter Found Dead in Home—Suspect Shot Dead by Deputies

A mother and daughter were found dead in a possible double murder in a house in Buford, Georgia.

Police shot dead the suspected killer after he confronted them with a knife. The incident took place before 11 p.m. on Tuesday in Long Creek Drive.

Hall County Sheriff's Office said it was conducting a welfare and possible missing persons check at the home of Kim Nguyen, 42, and Lam-Anh Tran, 18.

Deputies were preparing to execute a search warrant when they came across a man who "made aggressive movements" in their direction with a knife. He was engaged and killed by the officers, with his identity yet to be released.

Police then entered the property, where they found the bodies of the mother and daughter.

According to local news site 11 Alive, officers from the sheriff's office remain on the scene, along with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI).

The sheriff's office is investigating the how the two women died, while the GBI looks into the incident that saw the suspect shot dead by police.

Hall County Sheriff's Office said it doesn't "have further details to share in the murder case" when contacted by Newsweek for comment.

Buford is a town of 17,144 people, according to the 2020 census, split between 4,727 households to the northeast of Atlanta. The medium household income is $57,147 with 12.2 percent of the population judged to be living in poverty.

After a railroad was completed in 1871, the town, built on what had been Cherokee territory, expanded rapidly. Buford became famous for its leather production, gaining the nicknamed "the leather city," though the industry closed down following a tannery fire in 1981.

Violence in Georgia

In a separate case on Saturday, a professor at the University of West Georgia (UWG) was arrested after a student from the same university was shot and killed in Carroll Country, Georgia.

Anna Jones, 18, was in a car outside the Leopoldo's Pizza Napoletana restaurant in Carrollton when she was hit and she was later pronounced dead on arrival at the Tanner Medical Center.

The suspect, Richard Sigman, had been involved in a verbal altercation with another man prior to the shooting.

In a statement, UWG President Dr Brendan Kelly said: "The University of West Georgia has learned of the loss of one of its students, Anna Jones, who passed away following an off-campus incident earlier today.

"UWG has terminated the employment of Richard Sigman and continues to work with the city of Carrollton Police Department, which leads this ongoing investigation."

In June, a 14-year-old in a car fleeing police crashed into a house in Coweta County, Georgia, killing a woman inside.

A man, who was also inside the property, was injured and required hospital treatment.