ATLANTA -- A Grady worker accused of stealing wedding and engagement rings from a woman who died at Grady Memorial Hospital surrendered to police Thursday.

Tacuma Jawara, 54, was charged with stealing the rings that belonged to 35-year-old Katherine Armstrong who died in the emergency room after a crash on I-85 near Flat Shoals Road. He was charged with one felony count of theft by taking.

Police told Channel 2 Action News they have surveillance tape showing Jawara with a property bag. He was a worker who had contact with Armstrong's family after her death.

Alan Armstrong said records showed his wife was wearing her engagement and wedding rings in the emergency room but after that they disappeared.

"Either some staffer stole those rings from a woman who just died in that room, or perhaps they were so negligent in the care of personal belongings that someone else just wandered in," said her husband, Alan Armstrong.

Alan Armstrong said Katherine had designed the rings herself and there were no others like them.

Atlanta police investigated and named Jawara as a suspect on Wednesday. When officers went to Grady Wednesday to make an arrest, Jawara had called in sick.

The rings have not been recovered. Authorities said Jawara has said he does not have the rings.