A felon accused of killing a middle Georgia man in May was arrested Monday at a fast-food chicken restaurant, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office said.
Nathaniel Lewis Cummings, wanted on murder and burglary charges in Dodge County, was arrested by DeKalb deputies and U.S. Marshals at the Church’s Chicken Restaurant in the 1800 block Candler Road, according Sgt. Adrion Bell with the sheriff’s office. The fugitive is also wanted for crimes in another county, Bell said.
Cummings, 38, is accused in the May 10 shooting death of Gregory Giddens, of Eastman, Bell said. Cummings is also wanted for burglary and probation violation in Laurens County, and his arrest also violates the terms of his release from state prison in February, Bell said.
On May 31, Cummings allegedly burglarized a Laurens County home, where police say he took two televisions, three firearms and a video game worth a total estimated value of $4,000.
“Cummings is also accused, in Dodge County, of committing a burglary when, without authority and with the intent to commit a felony or theft therein, he entered (a home) on June 1,” Bell said in a press release.
Cummings was released from state prison in February after serving nine years and three months following his conviction on burglary, theft by taking, robbery by intimidation, attempted robbery, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, escape and criminal interference with government property charges, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections.
He was also a state inmate from June 1992 to September 1994 after a robbery conviction in DeKalb, and again from December 1995 to September 2002 for crimes including theft by receiving stolen property, false imprisonment, impersonating an officer and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, records show.
Cummings was temporarily held in the DeKalb County jail before being transferred to the Dodge County jail.
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