A Cobb County grand jury this week indicted a man arrested in October in the 2000 killing of a Cobb County hotel manager, the district attorney's office announced Friday.
James Lorenzo Randolph, 32, was indicted Thursday on multiple charges, including malice murder, felony murder, criminal attempt to commit armed robbery, armed robbery, aggravated assault, armed robbery and possession of a firearm during commission of a felony.
Rodney Castlin was working as the night manager at the Wingate Inn at Barrett Parkway and I-75 on Dec. 7, 2000 when robbers shot him in the chest, killing the 36-year-old married father. Castlin’s wife was expecting the couple’s fourth child when he was killed.
In October, nearly 14 years Castlin’s death, Randolph was arrested without incident in Columbia, S.C., the U.S. Marshals Service said.
At the time of the arrest, no information was released about how Randolph was linked to the case, Cobb District Attorney Vic Reynolds said. He also told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that investigators were “actively looking at a second suspect.”
Randolph was booked into the Cobb County Jail on Oct. 8 and remains held there without bond, Reynolds’ office said Friday.
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