ASHEBORO, N.C. — Asheboro police said two women were found shot to death on Monday.
Officers were called to a home on Hamlin Street in reference to a shooting.
When they arrived, they found 68-year-old Fatima Alston, who lived there, dead from a gunshot wound. They also found the body of 33-year-old Tiona Sesmas.
Family and neighbors told WFMY News 2's Grace Holland Alston was Sesmas' grandmother. They said she was a very good person who took care of her loved ones.
A neighbor said a man who lived with Alston knocked on her door around 1:30 p.m. and asked her to call 911.
There was a lockdown at a nearby elementary school as a precaution, but police said there isn't considered to be a threat in the area. Police said preliminary information indicates there isn't a suspect at-large.
This case is being investigated by the department’s Criminal Investigations Division. Should anyone have additional information they are asked to contact Detective Burnette at 336-626-1300.
911 call reveals more:
This was the first 911 call received. The caller is a neighbor who the grandfather - Alston's husband - ran to for help. The grandfather was in the background of the phone call.
- Caller – "A granddaughter shot her grandmother."
- 911 – "Did she do it on purpose?"
- Grandfather -- "Yes."
- Caller -- "She done it on purpose."
- Grandfather - "Then shot her [sic] self."
- Caller – "She shot her grandmother, then she shot herself."
- Grandfather – "She was gonna go kill me."
- Caller – "He run."
- Caller – "...Her husband’s at my house."
- Caller – "He run out the door, so she wouldn’t shoot him."
- Grandfather – "Please get ‘em here right quick. Lord, they done killed my wife."
- Grandfather – "They gonna bleed to death."