Fulton County prosecutors announced they planned to go ahead with plans to seek the death penalty against a man accused in four killings and already facing a death penalty trial in DeKalb County.
Aeman Presley is charged in Fulton with the killing of two homeless men. Dorian Jenkins and Tommy Mims were shot multiple times last year during Thanksgiving week as they slept on the streets in Atlanta. Prosecutors had filed notice April 1 on their intent to seek the death penalty in Fulton.
In DeKalb County, Presley pleaded not guilty Tuesday in the shooting death of a hairdresser on the downtown Decatur square. A tentative date was also set for a separate trial in the death of a third homeless man.
Presley appeared in DeKalb Superior Court, accused of killing Calvin Gholston, 53, in September, and hairdresser Karen Pearce, 44, of Cobb County in December.
Gholston was shot multiple times Sept. 27 outside a shopping mall in unincorporated DeKalb. Police say they considered Gholston, who suffered from schizophrenia, to be homeless.
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