Prominent Black Family Found Dead (cobbs County)

Rastafarai

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Ladies in the ATL...found this on my news feed and I just don't understand. She had also just come back from a trip to Italy with her daughter. Is this a cover up???

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COBB COUNTY, Ga. - The family of a prominent Atlanta surgeon and community leader was found dead inside a Vinings townhome Wednesday night.

Police say Dr. Marsha Edwards, 58, shot and killed her two children, Christopher Edwards, Jr., 24, and Erin Edwards, 20, before turning the gun on herself.

Marsha Edwards’ ex-husband and father of her two children is Dr. Christopher Edwards, a well-known orthopedic surgeon and the chairman of the Atlanta Housing Authority. He is the former president of the Georgia Physicians Association, a former vice president of the Grady Hospital Board of Trustees and a former chair of the United Way of Greater Atlanta Health Committee. He also serves as a member of the board of trustees of the Morehouse School of Medicine, according to the Atlanta Housing Authority website.

According to LinkedIn, Dr. Marsha Edwards owned a business called MME Enterprises, a surgical and medical equipment supplier.

Christopher Edwards and his sister Erin grew up in Atlanta. Christopher worked for the City of Atlanta as the Digital Content Manager for the Executive Office of Entertainment. He graduated from Elon University.

Erin Edwards graduated from Woodward Academy in 2017 and was a student at Boston University. She interned in the digital department at NBC New York over the summer. Before that, she interned in the Mayor’s Office of Communications.

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms released the following statement about their deaths:

“Derek and I join the greater Atlanta community in mourning the loss of three members of the beloved Edwards family. Chris and Erin were beautiful, vibrant, and brilliant young adults, whom we had the pleasure of knowing their entire lives. They filled the lives of all who met them with joy, compassion, and kindness. May the peace of God, that surpasses all understanding, be with the Edwards family and all who had the honor to have known them.”

Erin Edwards and her mother had just returned from a trip to Italy together days before the shooting.
 

secretdiamond

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I know him. :( Not very closely, but through work networks and referring patients to one another, sending pleasantries, etc. We have been missing each other for dinner for months now (with other colleagues) for work. One of us was always busy and cancelling last minute.
I feel awful for him to lose his family this way.
Word is she had severe depression. But, it all still makes little sense.
If I find out more, I'll let y'all know. So sad.
 

Maracujá

November 2020 --> 14 years natural!!!
I know mental health issues firsthand, being someone who has been battling it for over a decade. My mom suffers from it as well. About a decade ago, when she would be going through one of her episodes, she would hide all of the knives away from our home. Probably so as to prevent something like this. May they all RIP.
 

SoniT

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I've been reading up on this story and looking at their social media pages. I read that the couple had divorced, remarried, and then divorced again in 2012. On Marsha Edwards' Facebook page, she gives the appearance that she lives a fabulous life - traveling, attending NABJ conventions, pictures with her Links sisters, celebrities, and politicians. It just goes to show that people only post what they want you to see. You never know what's going on in someone's head or at home.
 

ThirdEyeBeauty

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She killed two adults in an apartment in a city? What king of gun did she used? How did she get or make a silencer? Were they all to meet at the apartment? Were they asleep? What is the motive for a double murder suicide vs suicide only? What are the individual friends and family of each adult saying about the rendezvous to the city apartment? What are witnesses saying? There must be whole bunch of earwitnesses and maybe an eyewitness or two.

"For something like this to happen and unfold, it's unbelievable," neighbor Talia Cartall told WSB. "We didn't hear anything. There was no sign of violence or anything."
 
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Laela

Sidestepping the "lynch mob"
wow.. interesting questions.. I have one that is bothering me.... why did dad call police for a welfare check at the house, instead of just going there himself?? I wonder what their relationship was up to that point.

I doubt anyone heard anything..looks like thy'd lived in a 4-sided brick, end-unit townhouse.. near a buffer...

She killed two adults in an apartment in a city? What king of gun did she used? How did she get or make a silencer? Were they all to meet at the apartment? Were they asleep? What is the motive for a double murder suicide vs suicide only? What are the individual friends and family of each adult saying about the rendezvous to the city apartment? What are witnesses saying? There must be whole bunch of earwitnesses and maybe an eyewitness or two.
 

ThirdEyeBeauty

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Oh it was an end unit townhouse. Just read it was a highly secured with officers gated community. Great point why the father did not just show up at the place. Does he not live too far from them? Seems like that is not the norm for him to just show up?
 
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Ivonnovi

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It is my belief that this was a combo of Emotional turmoil (or Trauma) mixed with Mental Illness.
Almost as though the kids gave her some traumatic news she didn't handle well, and was s-e-v-e-r-e-l-y triggered. This would be especially true if this Nice Narcissist received some news that made her feel rejected or threatened; such as the kids deciding to move out from her and in with Dad.
She snapped and regained control of the situation...once & for all.
 

SoniT

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She killed two adults in an apartment in a city? What king of gun did she used? How did she get or make a silencer? Were they all to meet at the apartment? Were they asleep? What is the motive for a double murder suicide vs suicide only? What are the individual friends and family of each adult saying about the rendezvous to the city apartment? What are witnesses saying? There must be whole bunch of earwitnesses and maybe an eyewitness or two.
Good questions. :yep: I read that the victims were found in the garage but I don't know if that's true.
 

SoniT

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wow.. interesting questions.. I have one that is bothering me.... why did dad call police for a welfare check at the house, instead of just going there himself?? I wonder what their relationship was up to that point.

I doubt anyone heard anything..looks like thy'd lived in a 4-sided brick, end-unit townhouse.. near a buffer...
The son's employer called the dad when the son didn't show up for work. The dad tried calling the son, daughter, and mom and was unable to reach any of them. Then he requested the welfare check. Maybe he knew that something strange was going on.
 

JFemme

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Did not realize she was divorced.. Seemed she might have had issues surrounding this relationship ending.
 

Reinventing21

Spreading my wings
But her kids were 20 & 24 tho.

I just cannot wrap my mind around her killing her kids. I feel like I need proof she did it instead of them all being murdered by someone else.

You have an interesting theory though. What makes you think she is a 'nice narcissist'?

It is my belief that this was a combo of Emotional turmoil (or Trauma) mixed with Mental Illness.
Almost as though the kids gave her some traumatic news she didn't handle well, and was s-e-v-e-r-e-l-y triggered. This would be especially true if this Nice Narcissist received some news that made her feel rejected or threatened; such as the kids deciding to move out from her and in with Dad.
She snapped and regained control of the situation...once & for all.
 

Ivonnovi

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But her kids were 20 & 24 tho.

I just cannot wrap my mind around her killing her kids. I feel like I need proof she did it instead of them all being murdered by someone else.

You have an interesting theory though. What makes you think she is a 'nice narcissist'?

Because:
  • On the surface they are generous, very charismatic, everyone loves them and life is goodt. A carefully crafted image/facade
  • Below the surface they are controlling/control freaks, that become "shook" when what they perceive to be their peons rightfully exercise their free will. (think of the generous but meddling mother-in-law; or the seemingly Charismatic husband that seeks to destroy his wife if she leaves him.)
  • When these folks are threatened, their Masks slips and what's behind it ain't pretty
The combination of mental and emotional illness' can be very toxic. ....Oh and I watch the ID Channel ALOT.
 
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