CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. — One man is dead and another man is injured in an attempted murder-suicide in Canton that sparked a lockdown at four Cherokee County schools Tuesday morning, deputies said.
Deputies identified the man who died as Paul Miceli, 55. The person accused of shooting him is is an 80-year-old man, who is still in the hospital. Authorities said that the suspect is the father-in-law of Miceli.
Cherokee County Sheriff's Office deputies responded just before 11:30 a.m. to Butterworth Road in Canton to a call of a person shot. When deputies got there, they said they found Miceli dead in the driveway. They searched the area and later found the second man who had also been shot and was critically injured.
Deputies said the suspect was suffering from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after he allegedly shot and killed the victim, who deputies said were related to each other.
In the meantime, four Cherokee County schools were placed under a Code Yellow lockdown. The schools under lockdown were ACTIVE Academies, Freedom Middle School, Knox Elementary School STEM Academy and Liberty Elementary School.
A Code Yellow is a situation that "presents no immediate danger to students, staff or others, but there is a situation in the immediate vicinity of a school." All doors were locked and no students were allowed outside, unless they were checked out.
The schools are no longer under lockdown, according to officials.
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