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Georgia Man Murdered Mother, Left Baby Beside Her in ‘Pool of Blood,’ Investigation Reveals

In the quiet bedroom community of Powder Springs, Georgia, law enforcement faced a nightmarish murder. Danielle Marshall, 23, was fatally shot in her home while her 9-month-old daughter, Eva, was in the residence.

First responders found Danielle on her kitchen floor “in the fetal position,” Amy Randolph, a former Powder Springs Police Department detective, told The Real Murders of Atlanta, airing Saturdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

“The child apparently had been wandering around the home the entire time mom was lying in the pool of blood,” Randolph said in the “Death in Powder Springs” episode. “It was terrible.”

Officials came to the home where Danielle lived with her mother, Gloria Marshall, after receiving a 911 call from Joshua Gibson, Danielle’s ex-boyfriend and Eva’s father, at around 1:15 a.m. on January 14, 2013.

Gibson told the 911 dispatcher that he was outside the house and could hear Eva crying inside. He said that he’d been trying to call Danielle but that she hadn’t come out or opened the door. Officers from the Powder Springs Police Department were sent to the home to do a welfare check, which led to the grisly discovery.

What happened to Danielle Marshall?
In addition to being shot in the head, Danielle “had possibly been beaten or pistol-whipped,” Powder Springs Police Department Chief Lane Cadwell, a former investigator for the department, told The Real Murders of Atlanta. “She had defensive marks on her arms and hands.”

Officials collected DNA evidence at the scene, where there were no signs of a forced entry. They recovered a 38-caliber bullet fragment from a kitchen cabinet. Investigators determined that Danielle had been killed around 11 p.m. on January 13, 2013.

In a police interview, Gibson, who lived with his current girlfriend, said that he and his girlfriend were at home asleep at that time.

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