Brother, sister stabbed to death at Canton apartment complex

CANTON, Ga. — Police are investigating the deaths of two people who were found stabbed at a Canton apartment complex.

Officers were called around 1:30 a.m. Friday to the Laurels at Greenwood apartment complex on Hickory Flat Highway on a report of an assault. They found a man and a woman lying in the breezeway of the third floor with apparent stab wounds.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene and the woman was taken to Northside Hospital where she died.

Police said the victims were brother and sister.

“We heard the screaming of the lady and the next thing we know, we see a bunch of cop cars pull up and they’re screaming,” neighbor Katie Staton said.

Police said the incident started as an argument between an estranged husband and his wife. %

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“And they started arguing and he started beating the wife and the brother tried to help her, and he ended up killing her and the brother died minutes after that,” Staton said.

The suspect, identified as Oscar Tierrablanca, turned himself in Friday afternoon. Police said he is the father of the female victim’s 18-month-old child.

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Neighbors said Tierrablanca dropped the child off at a babysitter’s home before turning himself in. Police said the child was not harmed.

He is charged with two counts of murder. Investigators said he will be held at the Cherokee County jail without bond.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was contacted and is working with Canton detectives in the case.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Canton Police Department at 678-493-4080 or the GBI Tip Line at 1-800-597-8477

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