COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — A daughter is in shock and at a loss for words just hours after she said her mother was one of four people shot and killed in an apparent murder-suicide at a Coweta County home early Saturday morning.
As she painfully fought back tears in a time of grieving, Brittany Carter remembered her mother, 56-year-old Tina Elaine Sasser, whose life was tragically taken far too short at a home along Crabapple Court in Sharpsburg around 1 a.m.
"My mom was a wonderful human being," Carter explained to 11Alive's Tresia Bowles. "(She would) give you the shirt off her back, and she would help anybody that needed it."
Sasser was described by her daughter as a loving mother and grandmother who had a big family and loved spending time with her numerous grandchildren any chance that she could.
"I don't know why you had to take a wonderful woman from her grandkids," Sasser's daughter said. "She was finally getting her life together. And her grandkids needed her more than ever. I don't think it's fair that you took her life."
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The Coweta County Sheriff's Office said that several 911 calls came in from residents of Crabapple Court after neighbors described hearing what they thought were gunshots coming from a home down the street.
When Coweta County Sherriff's Office deputies arrived, they said two bodies were found in the driveway, and another body was in the doorway of the home. Deputies said a man ran inside the house, and they reported hearing a gunshot.
That's when deputies called for backup from the Coweta County SWAT to assist. Deputies said they were able to enter the home and found a fourth person dead inside.
"What is justice?" Carter tearfully asked. "I'm not sure what justice looks like because he took his own life. And he's a coward for that."
Carter said that her mom lived down the street and is not related to any of the apparent victims at the home the shooting occurred at. Deputies are still investigating what led up to the shooting.
On Monday, July 1 deputies identified the shooter as Brandon D. Suckow, 32. The victims of the shooting were Joshua Wimmer, Parker Anderson, 31, and Tina Sasser, 56.
"I just want you to know that anybody that knows my mom knows what she was going through," Carter continued. "But she was still a wonderful woman. No matter what."
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