The two young women shot to death inside their Lee County home on Christmas Eve were stepsisters, one of them the mother of a 1-year-old girl.

Madison Daly, 18, and Kayden Lynch, 19, were inseparable, according to Anna Miller, a friend of the Beulah stepsisters.

“If you ever see Maddie, you would see Kayden. They were always with each other,” Miller told AL.com.

The stepsisters were natives of the Northeast when Lynch, her father and her two younger sisters moved from Massachusetts to Alabama.

Daly and her mother soon followed, and the blended family lived together in Beulah.

Lynch was an outgoing young woman who worked at Crumbl Cookie at the Tiger Town shopping center in Opelika.

Daly was the loving mother of a 1-year-old girl who was taking college psychology and criminal justice courses online.

Now their families are preparing funerals, with a GoFundMe set up by their brother and stepbrother, who described the double shooting as “nightmarish” for the family.

The GoFundMe raised more than $1,200 as of Thursday night.

The double homicide came as a shock to Miller, who said Lynch and the suspect in the double homicide, 18-year-old Jalen Dashawn Holmes, were friends.

“She was in love with him,” Miller said. “This was the last thing we had ever expected for him to do.”

Miller said she first met Lynch in middle school and became friends with both stepsisters.

“She was the type of person who was always happy. She could take the worst thing possible and turn it into the best thing for you. She loved and cared about everybody so much,” Miller said of Lynch.

Daly was more reserved and doted on her 1-year-old daughter.

“Maddie was the best momma that I’d ever known for that baby,” Miller said.

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office 911 Center received a call around 3:48 p.m. Tuesday about gunfire near Lee County Road 2113 and Highway 29 North in the Beulah community, the office said.

Deputies responded to a home in the 100 block of Lee County Road 2113, where they found the victims suffering from gunshot wounds and unresponsive along with an 18-year-old man suspected of shooting the women.

Lee County jail records showed Holmes was booked on charges of capital murder.

The investigation into the deadly double shooting revealed Holmes allegedly assaulted his mother, who lived next door to the home where Daly and Lynch lived, earlier on Christmas Eve.

Holmes then allegedly took a gun from his mother’s house.

Witnesses reported hearing gunfire before 911 was called.

Two 9-year-old twin girls had been at the home but left prior to the shooting, the sheriff’s office said.