Georgia father, 36, charged with murder of daughters aged one and three after 'locking them in car and setting it on fire'

A Georgia father has been arrested for murdering his toddler daughters after setting them on fire inside a car following an argument with his wife. 

Adan Tzoyohua Panzo, 36,  was charged with felony murder, malice murder, and arson, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

On Saturday, officers from the Webster County Sheriff's Office and Fire Department and emergency personnel responded to a report of a car fire at a home on Millard Kennedy Road in Preston. 

Adan Tzoyohua Panzo, 36, was charged with felony murder, malice murder, and arson, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation

Once the fire was extinguished firefighters discovered Panzo's young children, a one-year-old and three-year-old girl, dead inside the vehicle. 

The father-of-two was arrested after allegations that he set the vehicle on fire after a domestic dispute with his wife. The children's mother has not yet been identified.  

Panzo is being held at the Webster County Jail.

The news of the horrific incident spread like wildfire in the tight-knit community.

One resident in the community told local WALB News: 'I don’t know how fast the fire took off or if they suffered or if they wasn’t suffering… I don’t know it’s just really sad to hear about.'

The person added: 'If that was my mother that would break her.'

The horrific case is an active investigation involving GBI agents, the State Fire Marshal’s Office, and the Webster County Sheriff’s Office.

The community of Preston is a small rural county located in Southwest Georgia and was formed on December 16, 1853 from a portion of adjoining Stewart County Georgia, as per the Webster County home page.

According to a 2000 census, the population in the town was 453, which included 190 households, and 129 families.

The children's mother has not yet been identified