Kindergarten teacher, 35, is shot dead at her parents' house 'by mother of her estranged husband while her young children were outside of the home'

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A well-liked kindergarten teacher in Georgia was shot to death at her parents' home allegedly by her mother-in-law on Thursday.

Authorities say 63-year old Elizabeth B. Wall of McRae is accused of shooting dead her daughter-in-law, 35-year-old Jenna Wall at a home on Antioch Road SW in Powder Springs.

The grandmother arrived at Jenna Wall's home with her grandsons, ages 7 and 8 around noon on Thursday, WSB-TV reported.

She told the boys to wait outside in a pickup truck when she entered the house.

Authorities said the children heard several gunshots from inside the home.

'We've been able to get a good bit of information from them. They are safe. They are sound,' said Cobb police Sgt. Dana Pierce.

'They are at our Crimes Against Children Unit. They are being interviewed.'

The victim's estranged husband and the boys' father, Jerrod Wall, was alerted to the murder by a strange call he received from his mother asking him to come to the home.

When he arrived, he found her sitting in the living room holding a gun, WSB-TV reported.

Wall has been charged with murder, aggravated assault, possession of a weapon during the commission of a felony and cruelty to children, WGCL reported...

Police have not released a motive for the shooting yet, but believe that it was domestic in nature.

'Now we are just simply trying to confirm what we believe to be the motive which we're not disclosing at this time,' Pierce said.

Documents obtained by WGCL show that the former couple who were married on July 17, 2004 had been separated for a year as they were in the middle of a contentious divorce.

The teacher filed for divorce first, but in a counter-petition filed by Jerrod Wall against her about two weeks ago, he claims that she was involved in an extra-marital affair with a former boyfriend from high school.

In the documents, he claimed that his estranged wife disclosed to him that she was having the affair after she filed for divorce.

The mother-of-two and her former high school boyfriend started communicating via social media in 2013 before meeting up in 2014...

Jerrod Wall claimed in the divorce petition that the she would speak to the man between 15 to 20 times a day while she was at work or at home with the family.

He alleges that the teacher created specific accounts to communicate with him in an effort to conceal the affair, and that she had sex with him inside the home they shared.

Jerrod Wall, who is an investigator at the Paulding District Attorney's Office, claims that she exposed their children to at least one of her romantic meetings with the man.

In addition, he claims that she would not allow him to spend time with their two children and filed for permanent custody of the boys.

But he claimed that she was financially and emotionally unstable and wouldn't be able to care for the children, the documents state.