Henry County police are looking for the estranged husband of a woman found dead in Hampton.
Preston Young, 38, is considered armed and dangerous, Henry County police Sgt. Hillard Ireland said Monday. He is known to drive a 2004 maroon Dodge Ram pickup, Ireland said.
A 3-year-old child alerted police to what turned out to be a murder scene Aug. 11 afternoon in the exclusive Crystal Lake Country Club subdivision.
Henry County police responded to a distress signal sent from an OnStar button a little after noon.
Inside a vehicle at the residence they found the unattended child. Officers eventually gained entry into the home, located in the 300 block of Masters Club Boulevard, where they found the body of a woman in her mid-40s.
Police are not releasing the woman's identity, and are also withholding the cause of death. They have, however, ruled her death a homicide following an autopsy by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Neighbor Velma Harris said neither she nor her husband heard or saw anything strange as they went to work Thursday morning. They returned home to find their street crawling with police.
The occupant of the home had recently ended her marriage, Harris said.
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