UPDATE: Suspect Hart Co. Sheriff’s Office has been searching for is in custody

The suspect that Hart County has been searching for throughout the night is in custody.

Hart County Sheriff Mike Cleveland says Larrendrick Rashad Tabor is suspected to be responsible for a shooting and stabbing that occurred Monday night between 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

Cleveland said it happened on Friendship Road where a man was shot and killed and a woman was stabbed.

The woman was taken to an area hospital and her condition is not known. Hart County deputies with assistance from the GBI are processing the scene.

Cleveland said the shooting Monday night is believed to be connected to the murder of 18-year old Mericus J. Scott of Royston last week in Anderson.

Anderson County Sheriff’s spokesman JT Foster told WNEG News last week, deputies were called to a pond on Appleton Street on the Old Appleton Mill property on the morning of January 20 where they found a body floating in the water.

The Anderson County coroner later identified the victim as Scott.

Foster tells WNEG News Scott suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and the Anderson County Coroner ruled Scott’s death a homicide.

Monday night, the Hartwell Sun reported authorities tracked Tabor from the crime scene to an area near South Hart Elementary where tracking dogs lost him.

Out of an abundance of caution, the decision was made to close the school today.

WNEG News is following this story and will have more information as it becomes available.