After Alexandra Liz Bodie fatally shot a woman outside a laundromat earlier this month, the danger to those around her didn’t stop there, a police report alleges.
Witnesses told officers that Bodie, 29, made violent, armed threats to at least one bystander who tried to stop her after the alleged shooting on May 11. The police report also sheds more light on what led up to the killing of 40-year-old Brandy Jean Brummett in southern Chamblee.
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Officers responded to reports of a shooting about 5:45 p.m in the area of 2800 NE Expressway, a strip of businesses between Johnson Road and the I-85 access road. They found Brummett lying in a stairway suffering a gunshot wound to her upper torso, according to the Chamblee Police Department incident report. She later died from her injuries.
One witness told investigators he was sitting at the bottom of the steps when the suspect walked up, passed Brummett in the middle of the stairway, and said, “Don’t touch me,” along with several curse words, the report states.
“The suspect then took out a black automatic handgun,” shot the woman once and kept running up the stairs, the witness told police.
But the chaos continued.
A man said he was driving through the area in his van when he saw the shooting and pulled into a nearby parking lot. He was able to grab the woman, later identified as Bodie, but she pulled out a gun and pointed it to his stomach, the report states. He let her go.
Another bystander said he was outside throwing away trash when the shooting happened. He heard the suspect shout, “If you follow me I will shoot you” as she left the scene, he told police.
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Nearby surveillance footage captured at least some of the incident. According to the report, officers were able to identify Bodie as the alleged shooter since they had encounters with her before. Chamblee police officials declined to provide more information about the case or a suspected motive, since the investigation is still active.
Bodie, who lives in Lithonia, was arrested in Doraville on Saturday, a week after the shooting, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office said. According her arrest warrant, she faces one count of felony murder.
County court records show that Bodie pleaded guilty in 2015 to family violence battery and disorderly conduct charges.
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