The man accused of a shooting spree across DeKalb County that killed two women and injured a man had been renting a room in a home shared with strangers.
How it’s hindering investigation and affecting other renters LIVE on Channel 2 at 6:00
Police said Olaolukitan Adon Abel killed 31-year-old Prianna Weathers on Wesley Chapel Road then 40-year-old Lauren Bullis on Battle Forrest Drive hours later. He was staying in a home near the shooting that took Bullis’ life.
When Monica Woods saw that, she told Channel 2’s Tyisha Fernandes she couldn’t believe it was so similar to what happened in her DeKalb neighborhood a mile away in February.
Police said a man renting a room in a shared home on Oxford Drive shot and killed a Postal worker Feb. 12.
“I’m all for affordable housing,” Woods said. “I’m all for everyone having a place to live, but it needs to be done in the proper manner.”
Woods contacted the county to find out why they’re not regulating these types of homes and questioned what kind of background checks are being done, especially after she learned the two murder suspects in the two different cases had criminal records.
Someone renting a room in this home on Battle Forrest Drive said she got an email from the company she pays rent to, saying she has to move out in less than a week, but not because of anything she did.
DeKalb County officials said they are looking into the matter, but officials in any county cannot go into a shared housing home without a warrant to see that multiple strangers are renting rooms there.
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