A man was arrested Thursday after a woman’s body was found in a DeKalb County creek, police said.
The woman, who was not publicly identified, was found near the 3200 block of Henderson Mill Road in a creek at about 7:40 a.m. Friday, DeKalb police spokesman Lt. Shane Smith said. Investigators were able to determine that she had been sexually assaulted and killed by a “known suspect.”
Joaquin Perez Marroquin was identified as a suspect and is facing charges of murder and aggravated sodomy. Authorities did not say how the victim and Marroquin knew each other.
A motive and cause of death were not provided.
It’s not the first time a woman has been found dead in a creek in the past few days.
A Henry County bookstore owner was found dead Sunday in Cedar Creek in Putnam County, Locust Grove police Chief Derrick Austin said. Erica Atkins had been reported missing just 10 hours earlier by a family friend.
Atkins’ employee at Birdsong Books and ex-boyfriend, Romero Johnson, was arrested and charged with kidnapping and murder. The victim and Johnson worked together at a pop-up bookshop Saturday and police confirmed they were together that evening.
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