"From everyone we've talked to, from neighbors and family, [she] was like everybody's granny, that always took care of everybody, that would let people come in and stay with her if they didn't have a place to stay, so it's just senseless," Douglasville police Chief Chris Womack told the Journal-Constitution. "We want to jump on this fast and hard, and bring somebody to justice for this. This is pitiful, terrible."