Horror as girl, nine, and her father found dead outside park in Georgia

Daily Mail​

2 days ago

A nine-year-old girl and her father were found dead inside a parked car at a Georgia park and investigators are looking into whether the father pulled the trigger.
Emily Grace Mayo and her father, James Lee Mayo, 37, were found by police in a parked car at Brooklet City Park after reports of an 'unresponsive child locked in a vehicle,' according to the Georgia Bureau Of Investigation.
Officers with the Brooklet Police Department responded to the scene at around 7am on Tuesday where they discovered 'a child dead in the backseat with an apparent gunshot wound'.
Police then found James, with officials saying that 'a man was found dead in the front seat from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. A handgun was found on his lap'.
An investigation into the deaths is now underway and autopsies are being performed on the bodies, according to the release.
Authorities would not say if the same gun or bullets were used to kill both the father and his daughter.
Preliminary evidence points to a murder-suicide, according to reports. No motive has been released.
'I keep thinking this is not real. This is not real life. This does not happen to people we know, especially not my own family. Not my Emily,' the girl's aunt, Amber Healy, wrote on Facebook.
The statement added: 'Emily was nine and so full of life. To know her was to love her. She always had a smile , a hug, a laugh. If she met you, she loved you. It was instant. That all encompassing love.'
Healy has since organized a GoFundMe aimed at raising money for her burial and funeral services.
She also asked that people 'keep us all in your prayers as we navigate through this nightmare we cannot wake up from,' saying that Emily's mom is devastated to have to bury her little girl.
'No parent should have to make these decisions,' Healy wrote. The GoFundMe has raised over $30,000 as of Saturday evening.