A third suspect in the shooting death of a 21-year-old man attending a birthday party in Clayton County is now in custody, the U.S. Marshals Service said Thursday.
John Goodrum was sitting on the front porch of a home John Arnold Circle on April 15 when he was struck by a bullet, according to police.
Goodrum, the father of an 8-month-old boy, was not involved in the altercation that led to the gunfire and died after being transported to a local hospital.
Investigators issued arrest warrants for two brothers and a cousin, and on April 27, Mashawn Antonio Gresham, 27, was arrested by Clayton County officers.
But the whereabouts of the two others were not known, and police contacted the U.S. Marshals Service for assistance, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals/Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force said Thursday.
On Friday, Kenneth Todd Gresham, 28, was located at a DeKalb County hotel off Wesley Chapel Road and taken into custody, Supervisory Inspector Jim Joyner with the Fugitive Task Force said in a news release.
Wednesday afternoon, marshals tracked the third suspect, Kenneth Lamar Gresham, 25, to an apartment on Joseph E. Boone Boulevard in northwest Atlanta, Joyner said.
Marshals and officers from the Atlanta and Clayton County police departments located the man hiding in an apartment that also contained narcotics and other contraband, Joyner said.
All three Greshams were charged with murder and were being held without bond Thursday in the Clayton County jail.
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