Third arrest in fatal GameStop robbery

Officers responded and captured Seymore after a short foot chase, police said.

Adrian Tyrone Snow, 40, of Stone Mountain, was shot twice as he resisted two robbers trying to tie him up when he entered the store on Dogwood Drive, police said. He was airlifted to Grady Memorial Hospital and taken into surgery.

According to the police incident report, Snow was conscious when the first officer arrived on the scene and he was able to give some information about the robbery and shooting. The report also indicated Snow called his wife on his cell phone before being taken to the hospital.

Authorities arrested two men shortly after the robbery. Their charges have now been upgraded to murder.

Giovannte Maddox, 27, and Tron Lamar Hill, 25, were arrested Thursday after authorities from Conyers and Rockdale chased them through the woods that served as a border between the GameStop store and a stolen car they were going to use to drive away, police said.

Authorities think either Maddox or Hill shot Snow, Wilson told WSB Radio.

Police believe the men, both from Atlanta, are the same men who robbed GameStop stores in Gwinnett and DeKalb counties.

“There are a lot of similarities between the crimes,” Wilson told WSB Radio.

In the other robberies, the store attendant was also tied up, Wilson said.

Police were called to the GameStop store in the 1300 block of Dogwood Drive after someone called 911 to report a shooting, Wilson said. Officers arrived to find Snow shot inside the store and two others running from the business.

According to police, two men entered the store, locked the front door, pulled guns and then took the store clerk to the back of the store and tied him up.

The men were in the process of taking money and video games when Snow walked up and knocked on the door, Wilson told WSB Radio.

The men let Snow, 40,  in and then tried to tie him up, WSB Radio said. When the customer resisted, the men shot him in the hand and in the chest, WSB Radio said.

Maddox and Williams are charged with two counts of murder, two counts of armed robbery; kidnapping; two counts of aggravated assault; aggravated battery; obstruction and possession of a firearm during a crime.

The 1997 green Chevrolet Blazer they were trying to use to drive away had been reported stolen from Atlanta earlier Thursday, Wilson said.

Maddox and Hill aren’t cooperating with authorities at this time, Wilson said.

Hill, who initially gave police a false name, was released from Georgia State Prison on parole  in August after serving three years of a DeKalb County sentence for aggravated assault, cocaine possession and marijuana possession, according to state Department of Corrections records.

Maddox was sentenced to two years probation in Dekalb County following a 2007 arrest for drug possession.

Police Friday morning charged Seymore with two counts of armed robbery, kidnapping, two counts of aggravated assault, aggravated battery, obstruction and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.

Hill, Maddox and Seymore are scheduled to have their first court appearance on Nov. 15, police said Friday afternoon.