Sandra Barnett
The dramatic kidnapping was triggered when Brown became upset about the Barnetts going on a trip together, Officer Charlene Watson-Fraser, spokesperson for Clayton Police, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
A friend heard an altercation between the tight end's wife and supposed mistress over the phone as Brown allegedly stormed into the house with a gun.
Someone driving past the house to check on Barnett saw the SUV quickly drive away.
The Durango, as well as Brown's home in Lithonia, Georgia, were both in Barnett's name and the pair had allegedly been having an affair for three to four years.
Officers spotted the vehicle on Thursday morning in west Georgia and chased it into Alabama.
Brown then suddenly stopped in the middle of the highway, where authorities say the fatal shootings occurred.
The alleged mistress, also a school teacher in northern Atlanta, was on probation for another kidnapping in Texas, where in 2013 she had abducted her now 12-year-old child after losing custody.
Sommer Brown, 12, was the subject of an Amber Alert in April of that year and it took three days to track down the mother and child.
Brown, who also left her teaching job in 2013, was sentenced to eight years probation in March,11 Alive reported.
Sandra Barnett had reportedly recently changed the locks of her back gate after becoming concerned someone had tampered with them.
Fellow instructors and students at McNair Middle School, where Sandra taught, were devastated by the news.
They remembered the special needs teacher's 'bubbly, happy' spirit during more two decades at the school.
Buster Barnett is not implicated in the kidnapping.
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