FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) – Fayette County authorities are investigating the shooting death that left a 44-year-old woman dead on her front porch.

Sheriff's spokesman Brent Rowan tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution the woman and her 78-year-old grandmother may have interrupted a burglary at their residence on Bohannon Road near Tyrone in north Fayette County just before the shooting on Friday.

WSB-TV reports that when the women arrived at the home, they heard someone inside and backed away.

Police believe someone then fired a shot from a nearby vehicle.

Rowan says no one was injured and investigators remain at the scene.

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