Two young women are dead following a double shooting on Christmas Eve in Lee County, and their alleged killer has been charged with capital murder.
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office 911 Center received a call around 3:48 p.m. Tuesday about gunfire near Lee County Road 2113 and Highway 29 North in the Beulah community, the office said.
Deputies responded to a home in the 100 block of Lee County Road 2113, where they found the two victims, ages 18 and 19, suffering from gunshot wounds and unresponsive along with an 18-year-old man suspected of shooting the women.
Lee County Coroner Daniel Sexton pronounced the victims dead at the scene.
Sexton identified the slain women as 18-year-old Madison Daly and 19-year-old Kayden Lynch, both of Beulah.
The victims, according to the sheriff’s office, were not related but listed their address as the home where the shooting occurred.
Tributes were posted to the roommates on social media.
“My beautiful beautiful sweet angels I hate he took y’all from us we will miss y’all so very much , I’m still in shock I need you to come I miss you so much I just wanna hear y’all laugh and talk and come pick me up to go on crazy rides I love y’all so much may y’all rest,” read one post.
Another shared a photo of Lynch, writing, “ We will miss you sweet baby.”
“They will definitely be missed !!” wrote another who knew the roommates.
The investigation revealed the 18-year-old male suspect reportedly assaulted his mother, who lived next door to the home where Daly and Lynch lived, earlier on Christmas Eve.
The suspect, who was not publicly identified, then allegedly took a gun from his mother’s house.
Witnesses reported hearing gunfire before 911 was called.
Two 9-year-old twin girls had been at the home but left prior to the shooting, the sheriff’s office said.
The suspect was taken into custody on capital murder charges, according to the office.
The investigation remained ongoing Tuesday night.
Anyone with information on the incident was asked to call the sheriff’s office’s Investigations Division at 334-737-7155 or Central Alabama CrimeStoppers at 334-215-STOP(7867)
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