Authorities have arrested a man wanted in a fatal shooting spree at a Texaco gas station in southwest Atlanta last month, Atlanta Police Maj. Keith Meadows said Thursday.
Eric Stone, 24, was arrested in Americus, where he was staying with relatives. Meadows said homicide detectives were transporting Stone back to Atlanta, where he faces murder and aggravated assault charges for killing one man and injuring a woman and a 2-year-old child.
Channel 2 Action News reported Thursday night that Stone was back in Atlanta.
Meadows would not comment on a motive but said that Stone and the man he allegedly killed knew each other and that the Texaco incident “does stem from a crime that did occur in College Park.”
Police say on Sept. 13, Stone got out of a silver Honda at a Texaco on Martin Luther King Drive, approached a car and started firing an AK-47. Seated inside the car were La'deddric Love and Tedra Jordan, both 19, and two small children. Jordan, who was Love’s girlfriend, was pregnant with twins.
Love drove the car to a nearby recreation center to get help. He died from his wounds.
The 2-year-old was shot in the foot, but the couple's 8-month-old was not hurt. Jordan, 19, who was shot in the hip, subsequently gave birth to twins three months early.
“We’ve been able to determine that Mr. Stone intended to kill Mr. Love in this case, and it was a result of an ongoing dispute between him and members of his party. We believe that it spilled over from incidents that happened in other jurisdictions,” Meadows said.
Investigators tracked Stone down through vehicle records, Meadows told WSB Radio.
“Investigators received significant tips as it relates to the vehicle that was used as the getaway car, and through that, they were able to pore through a number of records from DMV,” Meadows said.
Meadows told WSB Radio that Stone was arrested on Tuesday by the FBI, Americus police and the Atlanta police’s fugitive unit. Authorities continue to look for two other people associated with the incident, he said.
“At this point, we still have significant work to do,” Meadows told WSB Radio.
--WSB Radio's Pete Combs contributed to this report.
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