Local News
Two men indicted in Cobb beating death
By Andria Simmons
April 6, 2011A Cobb County grand jury indicted two men Thursday on charges related to the beating death of a 27-year-old man during a robbery.
Jesus Hernandez-Perez, 29, and Jose Marcelino Badillo-Pacheco are charged with malice murder, felony murder, armed robbery, aggravated assault and concealing a death in the Sept. 18, 2010 slaying.
They are accused of beating Boydrick Powell to death with a wooden baseball bat and then dropping his body over the balcony railing at his Franklin Road apartment.
Hernandez-Perez was arrested two days later. Badillo-Pacheco is at large.