Mother Charged With Murder In Deadly Atlanta Domestic Shooting

ATLANTA — A mother was arrested and charged with murder Tuesday evening in connection with a deadly domestic dispute, police said.

Andrea Rivers, 43, was charged with murder and three counts of aggravated assault with intent to murder, according to police and jail records.

Police were called to an apartment on Thomasville Boulevard in southeast Atlanta shortly after 9 a.m., on Tuesday. Officers arrived to find a man and woman there both with gunshot wounds. The woman, 33-year-old Chiemere Poole of Atlanta, died at the scene of her injuries, but the man was taken to an area hospital to be treated.

Atlanta Police Major D’Andrea Price said investigators believe the argument started about items taken from the apartment related to River’s and the male victim’s shared child.

“She was actually asked to leave the apartment and was leaving the apartment … when gunfire was exchanged,” Price said.

Police did not identify the injured male victim, or the relationship between Poole and Rivers or between Poole and the injured male.

Rivers was arrested early Tuesday evening and taken to the Fulton County Jail where she is being held without bond.