Catherine Goins
Catoosa County Sheriff Gary Sisk said a woman who was killed in Ringgold on Friday was not an intruder, but was lured to the home and murdered by a Hixson woman.
Authorities initially said Natalia Roberts, 30, of LaFayette, Ga., broke into a home on Smoketree Circle.
Sheriff Sisk said at a morning press conference that Ms. Roberts was lured to the home, and then shot in the back of the head by Catherine Goins, 37.
He said Ms. Goins got Ms. Roberts to come to the home by saying she was going to give her some baby clothes for her newborn baby.
She was shot with a .380 caliber handgun as she walked down a flight of stairs.
Sheriff Sisk said the two women had never met before that morning.
He said Ms. Goins had told her boyfriend that she was pregnant with his child, and he left her after finding out she was not pregnant. He said Ms. Goins killed Ms. Roberts because she wanted her baby. The sheriff said Ms. Goins noticed that Ms. Roberts had a new-born child.
The sheriff said the shooting took place at the home of another former boyfriend of Ms. Goins, Tony Richards. He said Ms. Goins called him and said she had shot someone in his house.
He said she then tried to clean up the murder scene.
She then took the dead woman's two children, ages three and three weeks, and drove away.
Richards came home and found a woman's body in his residence. He then convinced Ms. Goins to return and claim she had shot an intruder.
Ms. Goins was arrested on Tuesday night in Marion County. She is awaiting extradition to Georgia to face charges of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, tampering with evidence and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.