Marietta neighbor charged after deadly Roselane Street shooting kills woman

A third-floor hallway in a Roselane Street apartment building became the center of a homicide case after Marietta police found 62-year-old Lucinda Bailey with a gunshot wound and later learned she would not survive.

Officers were called around 4:15 p.m. Sunday after a caller reported that a roommate had been shot. When police arrived at the building in the 300 block of Roselane Street, also identified as 341 Roseland St., they found Bailey inside the third-floor hallway. She was rushed to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, one of the major trauma hospitals serving Marietta and Cobb County, and later died.

Police identified 61-year-old Angela Freeman, Bailey’s upstairs neighbor, as the suspect. Freeman was taken into custody and charged with murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. She was being held without bond at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center.

The case has the tight, unnerving feel of violence that never left the building. Bailey and Freeman lived close enough to share the same structure, and the shooting appears to have unfolded in a confined residential space rather than on a street corner or in a public dispute. That detail has sharpened attention on the sequence of events inside the apartment complex and the trail that led detectives to Freeman so quickly after Bailey was found.

Marietta police spokesman Chuck McPhilamy said Bailey was discovered in the hallway, and the investigation remains active. Detectives are still working to reconstruct what happened before the shot was fired, whether the two women had any prior conflict, and what evidence supports the charges now filed against Freeman. The public record so far does not explain the motive.

WSB-TV reported that both Bailey and Freeman were in their 60s, underscoring how personal this case appears to be. For a neighborhood that sits within reach of Wellstar Kennestone Hospital and the steady rhythm of everyday apartment life, the shooting turned an ordinary residential address into a crime scene and left investigators with the hard work of turning a domestic confrontation into a provable homicide case.

Police are asking anyone with information to contact Detective Fowler at 770-794-5388.