A 73-year-old Dallas County woman was shot and killed in her home on Christmas Day.

Dallas County Sheriff Harris Huffman identified the victim as Juanita Tripp, who was standing in her home when she was shot.

“Anytime is tragic, but for it to happen on the Lord’s birthday is just unimaginable,” Huffman said. “People should have been at home celebrating with their family instead of riding around shooting at people.”

Officers were dispatched to 896 Laredo Court around 6 p.m. to a shooting with victim. Tripp’s daughter, who witnessed the shooting, was also injured.

“The daughter was standing on the porch. She was calling for her son to come inside,” Huffman said. “When she felt a burning sensation in her right shoulder she heard several more shots. As she turned and went inside the residence, she found her mother laying in a pool of blood.”

Huffman said Tripp was transported to the hospital, where she died from a single gunshot wound. Investigators believe she was shot with a rifle.

Huffman said investigators recovered shell casings from the scene as well as some video.

“We also have from my understanding some video, and that video has been sent to Montgomery to hopefully be enhanced,” he said.

Huffman said Tripp’s murder could be linked to other shootings in the neighborhood.

“One shooting was three doors down, and two of them were on the street over, so it was all within a block,” he said.

“We had one Saturday morning at 2:19 in the morning, we had one Saturday morning at 4:03 in the morning and at 4:52 in the morning,” Huffman said. “Sunday night we had a complaint at 7:45 about a vehicle being shot up, and we recovered that vehicle on Old Montgomery Highway at 8 p.m.”

Huffman said no one was injured in the other three shootings. Two vehicles were shot into as well as a house.

No arrest has been made, but Huffman said investigators do have two suspects in their 20s.

“We do have two suspects that we’re looking at,” he said. “I’ve got two investigators working on it, and we’re going to do everything we can to bring this to justice.”

Huffman said this is the county’s first homicide in 2016. The city of Selma has a total of 16 for the year.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department at 334-874-2530.