A couple accused of killing a Publix employee and leaving her body behind a Waffle House in south Fulton County last year has been indicted on murder charges, the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement Friday.

Jared Kemp, 19, and girlfriend De'asia Page, 18, each face charges of murder, aggravated assault, armed robbery and first-degree hijacking of a motor vehicle in the Dec. 21 slaying of 58-year-old Toni Abad, Fulton District Attorney spokesman Chris Hopper said.

Authorities allege Page lured Abad by asking for a ride about 10 p.m. that day to an unknown location on Church Street in Fairburn, where Kemp struck the woman multiple times and killed her.

Toni Abad (Credit: Channel 2 Action News)
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Abad’s body was stuffed in the trunk of her car, which was left at a Waffle House on Campbellton-Fairburn Road, Hopper said. The suspects also took Abad’s cellphone.

Abad’s body was discovered the next day when someone reported a suspicious vehicle sitting behind the Waffle House.

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