Atlanta police partnered with the U.S. Marshals Service to arrest a second suspect involved in a murder earlier this year in southwest Atlanta, authorities said.
Amarius Norris, 22, was arrested Sept. 1 in Hennepin County, Minnesota, and is awaiting extradition to Georgia on a felony murder charge, Atlanta police spokesman Sgt. John Chafee said. Quintavius Moore, 32, was arrested Aug. 6.
Both suspects are being charged in connection with the death of Donovan Maxwell, 29.
At about 1 p.m. on May 4, authorities arrived at an apartment complex in the 2100 block of Southwood Cove to check on a vehicle accident in the parking lot. They found that a black SUV had hit a parked car. Officers said the occupants of the abandoned SUV ran away.
Further investigation found that the vehicle was registered to one of the complex’s residents. When officers conducted a wellness check at that apartment, they found Maxwell with a gunshot wound, Chafee said. Investigators identified Moore and Norris as the suspects.
Norris has had run-ins with police in the past. In 2017, he served time in the Cobb County jail for taking a stolen gun to South Cobb High School, authorities said. According to a warrant, Norris took the gun to school in October 2016 to retaliate for a fight that injured one of his Bloods gang associates. Norris was released from jail in June 2018.
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