A man was arrested in Alabama after being accused of shooting his roommate to death and leaving him in a DeKalb County bedroom closet early Monday morning, officials said.
Malik Weaver, 30, faces a charge of murder and theft of a motor vehicle after he took off from the crime scene in the victim’s white Nissan Maxima, according to DeKalb police.
Officers got the call around 2:15 a.m. Monday that someone had been shot at the Harvard Place Apartments off Hillandale Drive in the Overlook area. After discovering the front door unlocked, they started to clear the home, which at first appeared to be empty, according to an incident report.
The officers then came upon the victim, 24-year-old Brandon Woodard, in the closet. He’d been shot in the neck, shoulder and mouth, the report details.
As they investigated, the victim’s other roommate returned home and frantically told police that he was there when a fatal fight unfolded between Woodard and Weaver, the report states. He told investigators that the two got home from a friend’s house just before 2 a.m. when they started arguing.
He couldn’t make out why they were fighting, but he heard a concerning scream from the victim, “so he jumped up to check on his friend,” investigators noted in the report. That is when he saw Weaver with a weapon but couldn’t tell what kind of weapon it was. The witness then heard three gunshots, ran for his life and tried to get a neighbor to call 911 since he didn’t have his phone on him.
Weaver had already taken the victim’s car and drove away before police arrived, the report said.
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