East Point police early Tuesday were investigating an apparent murder-suicide in a neighborhood off Washington Road.

Officers responding to reports of gunshots at a home on Potomac Court around 2 a.m. Tuesday found a man and a woman shot to death, Channel 2 Action News reported.

“We believe that the motive for this incident is a murder-suicide,” East Point police Lt. Cliff Chandler told Channel 2.

The identities of the man and woman have not been released.

The incident was the second apparent murder-suicide in metro Atlanta in about 12 hours.

Monday afternoon, a Gwinnett County man shot and killed himself in front of a police officer at a house near Lawrenceville, and when officers entered the home, they found the body of a woman who had been shot to death.

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Carleigh Knight (left) and her sister, Natalie Rogovin, look at Christmas ornaments while shopping at Kudzu Antiques + Modern in Decatur on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025. (Natrice Miller/AJC)

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