A woman has been charged with murder one week after another woman was found strangled to death in a townhouse in northeast Atlanta, police said.
O’Keisha Morea Range, 34, was arrested Tuesday and charged with murder and aggravated assault, according to Fulton County booking records. She remained jailed Thursday without bond.
On March 2, officers responded to reports of a person down at a townhouse complex in the 400 block of Piedmont Avenue in Atlanta’s SoNo neighborhood. When police arrived, they found the 34-year-old victim unconscious. Paramedics and EMS workers from Grady Memorial Hospital pronounced the woman dead at the scene.
The victim was identified as Shameria Gelisa Fletcher, according to an Atlanta police report that showed she and Range both lived at the complex.
Fletcher’s autopsy was performed Sunday at the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office. Her cause of death was manual strangulation, according to the police report.
Homicide detectives found probable cause implicating Range in the woman’s death, police said. A news release Thursday did not provide further details about how or why Range allegedly killed the victim.
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