Authorities confirmed that Andrew Roy Harris was out on bond for a domestic violence incident when he killed his girlfriend, Nicole Karastury Elliott, earlier this week.
As Us previously reported, Elliott, 35, had just returned home from dropping two of her three kids off at school on Monday, August 17, in Waverly Hall, Georgia, when she got into a fight with Harris, 36. The couple allegedly started arguing about one of her kids’ medications on Sunday, August 16, and the tension between them continued into the next day.
Harris County Sheriff Mike Jolley said during a press conference on Tuesday, August 18, that her doorbell camera captured the couple’s verbal dispute, and Elliott reportedly begged for her life before Harris fatally shot her.
“We heard voices on the Ring camera where she had yelled, ‘Don’t do it,’” Jolley said. “We heard the gunfire and then we heard her call his name out, ‘Don’t, don’t do it.’”
Following the shooting, police announced they were searching for Harris and that he was a suspect in Elliott’s killing.
One day after Elliott was killed, Harris was found dead at a Day’s Inn in Phenix City, Alabama.
Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor said said that Harris seemingly wanted to “make the deputies kill him by suicide by cop.”
Taylor added that Harris had a long history of criminal activity, and he previously faced several domestic violence charges in Georgia and Alabama. The officer said that he was arrested for a domestic incident shortly before the murder-suicide and was out on bond. (The victim involved in his latest arrest was not identified.)
Elliott and Harris had been dating since 2024, and police confirmed he was not the biological father of her kids.
She often shared photos of Harris on social media, and even referred to him as her “future husband” in one Facebook post.
Following Elliott’s death, Jolley said it was “heart-wrenching” to have to tell her children that she had died. “It’s never an easy thing to do, but when you tell three young kids that their mother is no longer here it’s heartbreaking,” he said.
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