A 76-year-old Georgia woman is accused of fatally shooting her ex-husband and his much younger girlfriend after allegedly storming into their trailer home because she objected to their relationship.
Grace Edge was arrested and charged with killing her former husband, 75-year-old Wallace Truman Edge, and his 40-year-old girlfriend, Pamela Cook. The shooting occurred Monday afternoon at a home in Toombs County, Georgia, officials said.
Authorities allege that Edge entered the residence on McNatt Falls Road in Uvalda and opened fire, discharging her gun five times.
Wallace Edge and Cook were struck a combined four times and were pronounced dead at the scene from their gunshot wounds, WTOC reported.
Cook’s 55-year-old mother, Diane Cook, was also inside the home. She called 911 during the attack and was shot in the arm.
“She just come in start shooting,” the older Cook told police during the emergency call, according to the outlet.
The shaken caller said there had been no argument before the gunfire. “No, she come in just shooting,” she told the dispatcher.
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Officials said Grace and Wallace Edge had been divorced for more than a decade but continued an on-again, off-again relationship. That relationship reportedly continued until Wallace Edge began dating Cook.
“Mr. Edge had started dating Pamela, and it appears that based on information we received that Grace was not accepting of the situation,” Toombs County Sheriff Jordan Kight told WTOC.
Edge was taken into custody soon after the shooting.
“We believe she had drove straight from the residence where this happened and drove straight here to the sheriff’s office,” Kight said.
Kight also said the former couple had repeatedly called police on one another over alleged domestic disputes and other incidents at their home.
No arrests had been made in any of the previous dozens of reported incidents, according to the outlet.
Edge faces seven charges in connection with the double killing: two counts of malice murder, two counts of murder and three counts of aggravated assault.
She remains held at the Toombs County Detention Center and is awaiting her first court appearance, police said.