Two men wanted in separate months-old Atlanta shootings were taken into custody on murder charges Thursday, authorities said.
Jamar Taylor, who was sought in the July 13 shooting death of Craig Perry, was captured in Sumter, South Carolina, by U.S. marshals, Atlanta police said Friday. Perry was found with a gunshot wound to the chest last summer at a home on Bolton Road in northwest Atlanta. Paramedics attempted to save him, but he was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Perry, 49, lived in Bremen and is survived by his parents and two sons.
Authorities also arrested Tyrone Turner, who was wanted in the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Aracna Copeland in November at the Amani Place apartments in Edgewood. Police were called to the complex along Hardee Street about 6:40 p.m. on Nov. 26 and found Copeland, known to his friends as AJ, in the parking lot with a gunshot wound to the head.
Weeks earlier, security guard Joseph Benjamin was shot and killed while patrolling the apartment complex. Police have not made any arrests in that case.
“It just seems like there’s a lot more killing now,” said one longtime resident, a grandmother of three who is concerned about the safety of her family. “It ain’t the people who stay in this neighborhood. It’s the others who come in here.”
Turner was captured in Monroe County on Thursday following a joint effort by APD’s fugitive task force and the Georgia State Patrol, according to police. Both he and Taylor are awaiting extradition back to Atlanta to face charges.
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