AUBURN, Ga. (AP) —Police are investigating a fatal shooting outside a grocery store in a suburb northeast of Atlanta.
Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith says the shooting happened Saturday around 5:20 p.m. in the parking lot of an Ingles grocery store in Auburn, according to a WSB-TV report .
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation claims a 911 call came from the store about a domestic disturbance.
Officers arrived to find 51-year-old Dorothy Russell of Statham, Georgia, shot to death in a car.
Police say Russell was fatally shot by her husband, 50-year-old Darrin Russell.
The GBI says Russell fled in a Mercedes, but was caught 45 minutes later.
Russell has been charged with one count of murder. He’s being held in the Barrow County jail.
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