Gwinnett County police on Monday identified two people found dead Saturday night inside a home near Duluth.
The victims, Young Chan Choi, 53, and his 59-year-old wife, Sun Hee Choi, were found dead just before 10 p.m. Saturday in their home on Worrall Hill Way, a street in Thornhill Commons. The subdivision is just east of Duluth.
The victims, owners of Best Supply, a restaurant supply business in Norcross, apparently had been stabbed, Gwinnett police Cpl. Jake Smith said.
“At this time, detectives do not know why the victims were targeted or if it had to do with the fact that they owned a business,” Smith said late Monday morning.
No arrests had been made, he said.
Quazi Hossein, who lives two doors away, said he came home near midnight Sunday to find “yellow (crime scene) tape and police everywhere.”
A woman who lives in the subdivision said she was shopping Saturday night when her cell phone rang. It was her sister, who lives with her, and she was scared.
“She said she saw two guys go in the (Choi) house,” the woman said Sunday afternoon.
Moments later, the woman said, her sister heard screams.
She called her brother-in-law, who came quickly to her home and checked on her sister. He also peered through a partially open blind at the Choi house, then called police.
Officers blocked the street and checked the identification of every motorist who entered Worrall Hill Way, said Shamara Long, who lives on the street. As Saturday night lengthened, she said, a crime-scene van parked outside the house. It was gone by Sunday morning.
By Sunday afternoon, the only evidence that police had been at the house were smudges of fingerprint dust, left on the door frame. On the landing and steps were two bloody footprints.
As word spread about the killings, cars drove slowly past the house, motorists and passengers peering at the tan, two-story home ringed by neatly cut bushes.
“This has been such a good, quiet neighborhood,” Long said. “This has taken us all by surprise.”
Staff writer Mike Morris contributed to this article.
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