Gwinnett County sheriff’s deputies on Tuesday arrested a fourth man charged in a home invasion killing in Duluth, leaving only one suspect still on the run in the crime that unsettled the quiet neighborhood.
Brian Joseph Brewner, 28 of Flowery Branch, was in jail Tuesday on murder charges. Last Thursday, the sheriff's fugitive squad arrested 21-year-old Devon Antonio Jenkins, who barricaded himself upstairs in a Lawrenceville home with a woman and four children. Deputies persuaded him to surrender peacefully.
Duluth police have said little publicly about the case, but arrest warrants reveal they believe Brewner was the ringleader and Jenkins was the triggerman in the home invasion in early August that left Adam Schrier dead and his 8-year-old daughter and his girlfriend wounded.
Brewner sent Jenkins and two other men into the house on Summercrest Lane in Duluth and then picked up the robbing crew afterward, the warrant alleged.
Pierre Cedric Scott also has been arrested in the case, according to jail records. Both he and Jenkins have a preliminary hearing on murder and armed robbery charges Friday. Scott had been paroled in June from Coastal Prison, where he had been serving a 10-year sentence for marijuana trafficking.
Three other men are also suspected in the case, but only James Leroy Stokes, 28, of Norcross, appears to still be on the run. Jonathan Julius Pichardo, 26, of Winder, has also been arrested, according to Channel 2 Action News. Police say there is a sixth suspect who was already in jail on unrelated charges and hasn’t been charged yet in the home invasion.
The robbers were seeking a stash of illegal drugs, Duluth Police Major Don Woodruff said.
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