Ohio mother, 34, shoots dead her daughter, four, then herself in murder-suicide

An Ohio mother and her four-year-old daughter were found fatally shot inside their home in suburban Cleveland, in what police are calling a murder-suicide. 
The bodies were found at around 2pm on Saturday in a bedroom at a home in the 3900 block of Delmore Road in Cleveland Heights. 
A preliminary investigation has indicated that the woman, identified by the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office as Noelle Cotton, shot her daughter, Savannah Noelle Cotton, before turning the gun on herself.
It did not appear that anyone else was in the home when the shooting occurred. 
Noelle Cotton and her four-year-old daughter, Savannah, were found shot dead inside their home on Delmore Road in Cleveland Heights, Ohio (pictured), on Saturday
Noelle Cotton and her four-year-old daughter, Savannah, were found shot dead inside their home on Delmore Road in Cleveland Heights, Ohio (pictured), on Saturday
Authorities have not released an official cause and manner of death, reported WOIO. Preliminary autopsy results are still pending. 
A woman who identified herself as a neighbor of Cotton's, whose children often played with Savannah, wrote in a comment on Facebook that the mom-of-one seemed very loving and called her daughter 'sugar.'
The neighbor went on to say that she had never witnessed Cotton yell at her toddler, even though she said Savannah was 'hard headed.' 
'She never showed stress or any frustration,' the acquaintance wrote of Cotton. 

In a follow-up comment, the neighbor recalled a conversation in which she said Cotton told her she was planning to move soon 
'Then I was telling her about a lot of resources to help but she never seem stressed,' the recounted. 'She showed that baby a lot of love she was very calm and loving to her.. I can’t seem to see what happened what made her do this.'
Cotton's Facebook page has been dormant since April. Her final post included information about food distribution for low-income families in Cleveland.  
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