Recently unsealed search warrants provide more insight into the ongoing investigation into the shooting deaths of a Saratoga Springs mother and her son.

The five warrants, all served in early June, discuss the ongoing search for the gun used to kill Jessica Orton Lyman , 44, and her 8-year-old son, Eli Painter , some of the evidence collected to that point, and the challenges police have had in talking to the surviving members of Lyman’s family.

Saratoga Springs police were called to Lyman’s townhome, 1244 N. Willowbrook Lane, on March 28 after her 17-year-old daughter arrived home and found her mother and 8-year-old brother lying on the floor in her mother’s bedroom, according to court records.

Eli, who was shot twice in the head, was pronounced dead at the scene. Lyman was taken t

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