TWO women were found dead in a house after a relative knocked on the door and met a man covered in blood.
Officers later found a suspect wielding a knife at the home after a welfare check was filed Tuesday in Buford, Georgia, police said.
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The bodies of Kim Nguyen, 42, and Lam-Ahn Tran, 18, were found after Nguyen’s ex-husband began to worry about the mother and daughter.
When the ex knocked on the door of the family, suspect Thang Duc Doan, 51, said his relatives were not at home.
Doan, who lived in the house with the two women, turned out to have blood on his shirt, so the ex called the police.
The Hall County Sheriff’s Office came to the house around 7:30 p.m. for a welfare check.
Deputies were seen outside in vests with helmets and rifles.
Finally, at 11 p.m., a search warrant was issued and SWAT agents entering the house reportedly found Doan with a knife.
Officers shot him dead when he became “aggressive,” said Nelly Miles of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
A search of the house led to the discovery of the women’s bodies.
Police would not say how the two victims died.
Autopsies on all three bodies will be performed by the GBI Medical Examiner’s Office.
An independent investigation into the shooting will be launched by the police, as police try to determine a motive for the women’s deaths.
No officers were injured in the shooting.
Neighbors told reporters that Doan may have been a live-in boyfriend of the mother, who owned a nail salon in Gainesville.
The residents said they were shocked that he had committed the crime.
The murder of the suspect by police was the 74th officer involved in the shooting of the GBI in 2022, a spokesman said.
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