Investigators believe a 57-year-old man killed his adult daughter and then himself Tuesday afternoon in the woods, the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said.
But before he died, Curtis Evans sent a relative a text message with his location, off Lower Burris Road near Canton, according to Capt. Jay Baker.
“The man who called 911 stated that his brother-in-law had sent him a text of a location deep in the woods,” Baker said in a news release. “When he went to the location, he located his brother-in-law and niece deceased.”
When deputies and firefighters arrived, Evans and his daughter, 28-year-old Emily Evans, were dead from gunshot wounds, Baker said.
Investigators said they believe Curtis Evans shot and killed his daughter and then himself.
Details about a possible motive were not released, and the deaths remain under investigation, the sheriff’s office said.
Property records show Curtis Evans had owned a home on Lower Burris Road since 1991.
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