Melodee Buzzard, 9, was shot in head by mother Ashlee, cops say

The agonizing months-long search for 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard has come to a heartbreaking conclusion, as the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office said that her mother acted alone in the death of her daughter — shooting her child in the head.

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office said that her mother acted alone in the death of her daughter KSBY

The California girl’s body was discovered in Utah in early December, two months after she vanished during an impromptu mother-daughter road trip.

“Maternal filicide is rare and always difficult to comprehend,” Santa Barbara County’s Sheriff-Coroner Bill Brown said on Tuesday.

Melodee was last seen on camera with her mother on Oct. 9 near the Colorado-Utah border after the pair took a sudden road trip from their home in Lompoc, California. Santa Barbara County Sheriffâs Office

Brown noted with disgust that the murder was premeditated, ruthless, calculated and heartless, saying that Melodee died from gunshot wounds to the head.