On the evening of Thursday, May 10, 2018, a domestic dispute at 311 N. 5th Street in Vienna, Georgia, ended with the death of 42-year-old Balinda Woodson. Earlier that day police had been called about her son, 20-year-old Tony Adams Jr., acting up; officers returned twice that night after Adams broke a window in his room but did not remove him from the home. After the officers left the second time, Woodson’s husband said Adams chased her into the bedroom, a stabbing motion was seen, then gunshots were heard.

When officers came back a third time they found Adams outside with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his upper left arm and Woodson inside deceased from a single stab wound and multiple gunshot wounds to her upper torso. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation assisted the Vienna Police Department; Adams was treated at a hospital, jailed at the Dooly County Sheriff’s Office, and charged with malice murder, felony murder and two counts of aggravated assault. He initially told police his mother’s death was a suicide but later admitted killing her over a situation between them.

Did anyone in Vienna know the family or witness the disturbances that night and has information that hasn’t been shared with investigators?