Man accused of killing man with baseball bat still on the loose

By Alexis Stevens

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Marietta police are looking for a man accused of beating a 27-year-old man to death with a baseball bat during a robbery.

Marietta Police Department Jose Marcelino Badillo-Pacheco is accused of beating a man to death with a baseball bat during a robbery last month, Marietta police said.

Cobb County Sheriff's Office Jesus Hernandez-Perez was charged with murder in the beating death of a 27-year-old Marietta man last month. He is being held without bond.

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Boydrick Powell was killed during a robbery inside his Franklin Road apartment sometime between midnight and 4 a.m. Sept. 18, said Officer Jennifer Murphy with Marietta police.

Within a few hours, arrest warrants were issued for Jesus Hernandez-Perez, 28, and Jose Marcelino Badillo-Pacheco, 21, both of Marietta, Murphy said.

Hernandez-Perez was arrested two days later and booked into the Cobb County jail, where he is being held without bond and on an immigration hold. But Badillo-Pacheco, aka “Gordo,” remains on the loose, Murphy said.

Badillo-Pacheco is in the country illegally and could be a flight risk, according to police.

Anyone with information about the man's whereabouts is asked to call Marietta police at 770-794-5300 or the anonymous tip line at 770-794-6990.