The manager of East Ponce de Leon Avenue strip club and two alleged members of a notorious robbery crew have been charged in the 2010 fatal shooting of the DeKalb County club's owner.
The manager of Pin Ups, Charles Edward Daniels, and Stacey Lamont Dooley, 35, and Ashley Antwan Henderson, 28, were charged with murder last week by a DeKalb grand jury.
Prosecutors cited the killing of Pin Ups' owner, Terry Stephenson, as the first in a series of brazen daytime thefts across the metro Atlanta area from September 2010 to March 2011.
Dooley and Henderson were previously linked to eight armed robberies. Last April, they were charged with murder and aggravated assault for the March 2011 shooting death of armored car guard Gary Castillo outside a Kroger store in Toco Hill.
The Pin Ups robbery was well-planned, according to the indictment.
Daniels and Dooley had been in "constant phone communication" during the week leading up to the Sept. 7 shooting, prosecutors said. But they adjusted on the fly after Daniels learned he wouldn't be taking the club's proceeds from the Labor Day weekend to the bank.
According to the DeKalb District Attorney's Office, Daniels told his cohorts to target Stephenson, who was carrying more than $55,000 in cash. They took the money after firing six shots at the 49-year-old former firefighter outside the Pin Ups entrance.
Two club patrons were arrested and charged with the murder, but were released after three weeks because of insufficient evidence.
Meanwhile, prosecutors say, Dooley and Henderson's crew -- which included at least a half-dozen other members -- was planning their next score.
On Oct. 7, they held up a Marietta armored guard and stole $104,694 in cash from his truck, according to the indictment. Over the next three months they allegedly targeted four more armored truck drivers, shooting one.
The crew made off with at least $240,000 in those thefts, prosecutors say.
During their crime spree, in December 2010, Henderson and Dooley also fatally shot one of their associates, Christopher Bennett, according to the DA. The pair are now charged with three murders.
Henderson and Dooley are also facing six counts of armed robbery in Gwinnett County, where they are still being held.
Henderson served three previous stints in state prison, according to the Department of Corrections. Dooley also has a criminal record and was on probation in North Carolina at the time of the killings.
Daniels is being held in DeKalb County Jail.
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