After Killing Powder Springs Woman, Man Shoots Himself: Police

POWDER SPRINGS, GA — A 44-year-old man shot and killed a Powder Springs woman on Sunday night and then turned his gun on himself when police in Polk County tried to pull his vehicle over, according to the Cobb County police. The Cobb police said Monday that they're investigating the murder-suicide and working to notify the woman's relatives in Nigeria.

Cobb police officers were dispatched at 10:05 p.m. Sunday to the report of a person shot at a home in the 2200 block of Manatee Court in Powder Springs, a police report stated. When they arrived, they found the body of the unidentified woman in the front yard of the residence; the police said she had sustained a gunshot wound.

"The victim is believed to be Nigerian and efforts are continuing to notify her next of kin in Africa," the police said in a statement Monday. The Cobb County Medical Examiner will determine the manner and cause of the woman's death.

Cobb police detectives identified the shooter as Tandy Borders, 44, who fled the scene in a vehicle. The police said Borders and the shooting victim were acquainted, but gave no further details.

Borders drove to the town of Rockmart, in Polk County. When Rockmart police tried to conduct a traffic stop on him, "the suspect shot and killed himself with a handgun," the Cobb police said.

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