VININGS, GA. (THECOUNT) — Dr. Marsha Edwards, a prominent Atlanta, Georgia, surgeon and community leader, was found dead along with two of her adult children inside a Vinings townhome Wednesday night.
Police say, Edwards, 58, shot and killed her two children, Christopher Edwards, Jr., 24, and Erin Edwards, 20, before turning the gun on herself.
Marsha Edwards’ ex-husband and father of her two children is Dr. Christopher Edwards, a well-known orthopedic surgeon and the chairman of the Atlanta Housing Authority. He is the former president of the Georgia Physicians Association, a former vice president of the Grady Hospital Board of Trustees and a former chair of the United Way of Greater Atlanta Health Committee. He also serves as a member of the board of trustees of the Morehouse School of Medicine, according to WSBTV.
According to LinkedIn, Edwards owned a business called MME Enterprises, a surgical and medical equipment supplier.
Christopher Edwards for the City of Atlanta as the Digital Content Manager for the Executive Office of Entertainment. He graduated from Elon University.
Erin Edwards graduated from Woodward Academy in 2017 and was a student at Boston University. She interned in the digital department at NBC New York over the summer. Before that, she interned in the Mayor’s Office of Communications.
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms released the following statement about their deaths:
“Derek and I join the greater Atlanta community in mourning the loss of three members of the beloved Edwards family. Chris and Erin were beautiful, vibrant, and brilliant young adults, whom we had the pleasure of knowing their entire lives. They filled the lives of all who met them with joy, compassion, and kindness. May the peace of God, that surpasses all understanding, be with the Edwards family and all who had the honor to have known them.”
Erin Edwards and her mother had just returned from a trip abroad together days before the shooting.
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Geo quick facts: Vinings is a census-designated place in Cobb County, Georgia, United States, just across the Chattahoochee River from Atlanta. As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a total population of 9,734 – Wikipedia.
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I find this story very bizarre! Need more information
How about we stop publicizing these murder-suicides and mass shootings. It think there would a lot fewer if the media wouldn't sensationalize them.
This is OBVIOUSLY a murder, a professional hit. Kill three fabulous people and slander the good name of the mother with the worst crime imaginable. What a perfect set-up! Even an "ideal" woman of color who has it all is basically just another crazy n----r who can go off at any time. This also plays into the nutty The Squad image of off-kilter women of color.
Hating whites can laugh about this, but why are black people buying into this horrible hoax?
I'm white. Many friends of mine who happen to be white are also following this story closely, some because they live in Boston, where it is getting much coverage because the daughter was a student at Boston University. NOBODY is "laughing" about this dreadul story and NOBODY is focused on the race of the woman and her children. You are way off-base and totally paranoid. This story is bizarre because an accomplished woman -- who CARES whether she was white or black? -- who was devoted to her two adult, high-achieving children murdered them in cold blood, then killed herself. And no one has any idea why.