An Alabama center college assistant principal is amongst 4 individuals arrested in connection to a 2013 Georgia chilly case triple homicide, Clayton County Sheriff Levon Allen introduced on Friday.
Keante Harris, assistant principal at McAdory Center Faculty, faces three counts of malice homicide, alongside Kevin Harris, Darrell Harris and Kenneth Thompson. The 4 are accused of killing and torturing three victims who have been found lifeless in Fulton County, Georgia, in 2013.
In keeping with Allen, the our bodies have been found by police on the aspect of a freeway inside an deserted Dodge Charger.
Detectives decided the three victims have been lured to a house in Jonesboro, Georgia and compelled inside at gunpoint, earlier than later being positioned within the again seat of the car, Allen mentioned.
In keeping with native information station WSFA, the victims are Cheryl Colquitt-Thompson, 32; her uncle, Quinones King, 33; and Rodney Cottrell, 43. Medical experts decided that King and Cottrell died from asphyxiation and Colquitt-Thompson died by strangulation.
Authorities haven’t introduced a motive or detailed the circumstances surrounding the alleged torture and killings, however Cottrell’s household instructed WSFA in 2018 that they believed the victims have been visiting household of Colquitt-Thompson and King on the time of their deaths.
The suspects have been captured throughout Alabama, South Carolina and North Carolina with out incident, in line with Allen’s announcement.
In a press release to native NBC affiliate WVTM made earlier than the homicide costs have been introduced, Jefferson County Faculties Superintendent Walter Gonsoulin confirmed Harris was an worker inside the college system.
“Right now we nonetheless are gathering info in regards to the specifics of this example,” Gonsoulin mentioned. “Nevertheless, early indications are that the fees should not associated to this particular person’s employment with Jefferson County Faculties.”