In what authorities described as a possible murder-suicide, two individuals who they think to be a married couple were discovered dead in a car near Gainesville on Thursday morning. The couple was identified by Gainesville police as Zenaido Alejo, 60, and Rosa Ojeda Contreras, 55. According to investigators, Alejo shot Contreras first and then himself. In the Willow Ridge neighbourhood, near the end of Deerwood Trace, their victims were discovered in an automobile in a cul-de-sac. According to the authorities, Alejo and Contreras resided in Gainesville and had grown children.
About Gainesville GA
Gainesville is a city and the county seat of Hall County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 42,296. Because of its large number of poultry processing plants, it has been called the “Poultry Capital of the World.” Gainesville is the principal city of the Gainesville, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Gainesville, Georgia Combined Statistical Area.
Gainesville was established as “Mule Camp Springs” by European-American settlers in the early 1800s. Less than three years after the organization of Hall County on December 15, 1818, Mule Camp Springs was renamed “Gainesville” on April 21, 1821. It was named in honour of General Edmund P. Gaines, a hero of the War of 1812 and a noted military surveyor and road-builder. Gainesville was selected to be the county seat and chartered by the Georgia General Assembly on November 30, 1821.
