Three people were found dead on August 21, 2019 inside a town home residence near Atlanta. Dr. Marsha Edwards, 58, is accused of shooting and killing her 20-year-old daughter Erin Edwards, and her 24-year-old son Chris Edwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officials say Dr. Marsha then killed herself via a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities discovered the dead bodies during a welfare check at Marsha Edwards’ upscale townhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Marsha is the ex-wife of a well-known Atlanta surgeon, Dr. Christopher Edwards \u2014 the victims\u2019 father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Edwards is an orthopedic surgeon and chairman of the Atlanta Housing Authority board, he also sits on the board of trustees for the Morehouse School of Medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chris Edwards worked as a digital content manager for the City of Atlanta and worked in the Mayor\u2019s Office of Entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Erin Edwards was a student at Boston University, and spent the summer in New York at an internship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), text \u201chome\u201d to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 or go to suicidepreventionlifeline.org.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A successful woman allegedly killed her two adult children and then killed herself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[688,544,490,20,82,497,16,69,84,219,215,216,57,70,81,402,73,583,581,362,66],"class_list":["post-13898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3-dead","tag-atlanta","tag-daughter","tag-dead","tag-dead-body","tag-deadly-shooting","tag-family","tag-family-secrets","tag-mental-health","tag-mom","tag-mother","tag-mother-dead","tag-murder","tag-rich","tag-rich-people","tag-son","tag-suicide","tag-triple-homicide","tag-triple-murder","tag-triple-shooting","tag-wealthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19288,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898\/revisions\/19288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}