UPDATE: South Cobb Mother Killed Children, Then Herself, Cops Say

UPDATE (6:00 p.m.): The Cobb County Police Department believes that a woman living in a South Cobb apartment complex was responsible for killing four people on Tuesday morning.

According to department spokesperson Dana Pierce, officers were dispatched to a ”person down” call at the Walton Crossing Apartments at 1820 Mulkey Road Southwest. Once officers entered the apartment in building 500, they discovered the bodies of an adult woman, a 9-month-old girl, a 4-year-old boy, and a 10-year-old boy.

Investigators have identified the deceased woman as Kisha S. Holmes, 35, of Austell, and say that the three children found in the apartment are Holmes’ sons and daughter. They believe Holmes killed her children and then took her own life.

The Holmes’ bodies will be given to the Cobb County Medical Examiner’s Office, which will perform autopsies to determine how each family member died.

UPDATE (4:05 p.m.): Additional details have been released regarding the discovery of multiple bodies inside an Austell apartment complex on Tuesday.

The apartment where the bodies were found is occupied by a mother and her three children, according to a source used by the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Cobb County police have not officially disclosed the identities or cause of death of any of the bodies discovered on Tuesday morning by a maintenance worker at the Walton Crossing Apartments at 1820 Mulkey Road Southwest.

The bodies will be given to the Cobb County Medical Examiner’s Office, which will perform autopsies to determine how each person died.

ORIGINAL STORY (2:12 p.m.): Cobb County police are at an Austell apartment complex investigating the deaths of several people whose bodies were discovered by a maintenance worker on Tuesday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

The bodies were discovered at the Walton Crossing Apartments at 1820 Mulkey Road Southwest. Police say they are not releasing the number of bodies found nor the manner of the deaths until the next of kin can be properly notified, the AJC said.

Patch has reached out to the Cobb County Police Department and will update this story as more information comes to light.