Police: One of 2 teens charged in Atlanta murder also killed man in Gwinnett County

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — Lilburn police told Channel 2 Action News an 18-year-old is the linchpin in a whole series of crimes, including two murders.

Detectives told Channel 2's Tony Thomas that after Khalid Bays turned himself in for the murder of an Atlanta grandmother, their case broke wide open.

Thomas was there when officers brought another suspect,18-year-old Geovanni Perez, into Lilburn police headquarters.

While Thomas waited for Perez to be brought in, a Channel 2 photographer spotted Lilburn detectives searching a southwest Atlanta house, which is a known teen hangout.

Officers brought out a bag of evidence, along with a pair of shoes.

For Bays, this is the second murder he's now accused of within a month.

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Adarius Jones and Bays were charged in the murder of Beverly Jenkins after police found surveillance video of the teens near where the grandmother was killed during an attempted carjacking in August.

Investigators said Bays escaped arrest once after he ran away from a car chase and an Atlanta crash.

He turned himself in last week  and apparently gave police enough to connect Perez with Gardner's murder.

"There is potentially a third person out there that we are endeavoring to locate," said Capt. Scott Bennett, with Lilburn police.

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