DeKalb County police are investigating after a woman was found dead and a 10-year-old girl shot Saturday morning.

The girl was taken to a hospital in critical condition, police told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The woman, identified as 43-year-old Deborah Jackson, according to police, hadn’t been shot, and it wasn’t immediately clear what led to her death.

Police did not release any other information about the incident, which took place around 11:30 a.m. at a home in the 1800 block of Harmony Hill Court.

Neighbors told Channel 2 the family who lived in the home mostly kept to themselves but that they had just had a large birthday party for a child.

No other details have been released by police.

— Please return to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for updates.

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