Three years after they allegedly gunned down two men in a botched drug deal, two Alabama men are awaiting extradition back to Atlanta.
One of the suspect's luck ran out Tuesday after the car he was riding in was stopped on a Tuscaloosa street for a bad taillight.
After police ran a criminal background check on Kendell Lamonte Grant, they came up with outstanding warrants in Fulton County, a Tuscaloosa police spokesman said.
Grant and another Tuscaloosa native, Willy Brown Jr., are accused in the May 19, 2008, shooting, stabbing and beating deaths of two Atlanta men.
An early version of the story, based on reports from Tuscaloosa, said Grant was facing charges in five separate murders. Fulton County officials clarified that he faces four murder counts in two slayings.
Grant and Brown accused of killing Walstene Butts, 33 and Raymond Johnson, Jr., 30, of Atlanta. Police discovered their bodies in a home at 1075 East Confederate Ave.
Yvette Brown, a spokeswoman for the Fulton County district attorney's office, said the two men are believed to have been killed as a result of a botched drug deal.
Grant, 29, and Brown, 30, were indicted June 14 on two counts of felony murder, two counts of murder, and counts covering aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and criminal attempt to violate Georgia drug laws.
A trial date has not been set.
Both men were being held in the Tuscaloosa jail awaiting extradition to Atlanta. Tuscaloosa police spokesman Sgt. Brent Blankley said Brown was not in the vehicle with Grant. Brown was being held on unrelated drug and assault charges.
According to Tuscaloosanews.com both men have been charged with trafficking cocaine in Tuscaloosa in the past.
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