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COLQUITT COUNTY, GA -- Cool Breeze Drive is a quiet middle class street in Colquitt County. But that quiet was interrupted late Monday night.

Colquitt County Sheriff's officials say it started as a domestic violence situation between Kejie McDougald and his wife Angela. But it ended with the death of the husband and their two children.

“She got away from him, escaped from the house ran to a neighbor. In the husband took the lives of two children and himself,” said Colquitt County Sheriff Al Whittington.

Investigators say the kids, both boys ages 15 and 8, were just getting ready for bed when the violence broke out.

It's also an especially tough case for the sheriff's department, because Angela McDougald is one of their own.

“She is a deputy sheriff with Colquitt County. She has been with us since I think '02, just a fine young lady,” said Whittington.

This crime affects a large part of Colquitt Count, because not only did Mrs. McDougald work for the sheriff's office, but she was assigned at the Colquitt county school system, where her husband also worked and both of their children attended classes.

“Obviously something tragic of this nature, it's a mood that is filled with grief, it's a very somber mood in the particularly effected schools but throughout the school system,” said Colquitt County Schools Superintendent Leonard McCoy.

Now people in the district are just trying to come to terms with what happened.

“We have a grief response plan that anytime that something of this tragic nature unfolds we can activate additional guidance counseling services for our children and our adults and this was a particular time that we choose to activate it,” said McCoy.

And being domestic violence awareness week, law enforcement say this is a reminder that even upholders of the law can become victims of the problem gripping Southwest Georgia.

“This kind abuse and violence just has taken everybody by surprise. But it kind of wakes everyone up that everyone is subject to this,” said Whittington.