Fulton to seek death penalty for accused serial killer
Fulton County prosecutors announced they planned to go ahead with seeking the death penalty against a man accused of being a serial killer and already facing a death penalty trial in DeKalb County.
Aeman Presley is accused of murdering two homeless men: Dorian Jenkins and Tommy Mims were shot multiple times as they slept on the streets in Atlanta on Thanksgiving week last year. Prosecutors had filed notice April 1 on their intent to seek the death penalty in Fulton.
In DeKalb County, Presley pleaded not guilty Tuesday in the shooting death of a hairdresser on the downtown Decatur square. A tentative date was also set for a separate trial in the death of another homeless man.
Presley appeared in DeKalb Superior Court , accused of killing Calvin Gholston, 53, a homeless man who was shot last September, and hair dresser Karen Pearce, 44 of Cobb County, who was killed in December.
Gholston, 53, was shot multiple times Sept. 27 outside a shopping mall in unincorporated DeKalb. Police say they considered Gholston, who suffered from schizophrenia, to be homeless
