Man kills adult daughter, himself in Cherokee County woods, officials say

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.