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Police: Robbery motive in Dunwoody slaying

June 27, 2012

Police said Wednesday that robbery was the motive in the slaying of a man at a Dunwoody apartment complex last week.

Christopher Williams, 20, of Stone Mountain was arrested Tuesday and charged with murder in the slaying of Roberto Calderon-Guzman, 28, Dunwoody police Sgt. Mike Carlson said. Calderon-Guzman was shot inside an apartment at the Peachtree Place complex on Peachtree Place Parkway just before 12:30 a.m. Friday.

Carlson said Williams was targeting victims through backpage.com, a classified advertising website similar to CraigsList.

Carlson asked that anyone with information on the incident call Detective Jesus Maldonado at 678-382-6925.

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