HENRY COUNTY, Ga. — It’s a murder case that spans several counties and ended with the owner of an event planning business charged with murder and concealing a death.
This all started when the family of Christopher Hanna reported him missing in Walton County.
Now the Georgia Bureau of Investigation says it has figured out what happened to him, and the business owner isn’t the only one charged with murder.
Channel 2’s Tom Jones watched as Kimberly Chafin went before a Clayton County Magistrate Court judge to hear the charges she faces.
“You’ve been charged with aggravated assault, malice murder, felony murder,” Judge Betrice Scott told Chaffin.
The judge also said Chaffin faces Possession of a Weapon During the Commission of a Crime and Concealing a Death.
The judge, reading from an affidavit, said Chaffin participated in the death of 53-year-old Christopher Hanna.
GBI agents say she was with Antione Kennedy when he approached Hanna from behind and shot him in the head at Chaffin’s event planning business on Jonesboro Road in Forest Park.
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“You assisted Kennedy in concealing and disposing of evidence by attempting to clean the blood at the crime scene,” the judge said.
The GBI said Chaffin also helped move Hanna’s body and car from the crime scene.
“It’s. It’s unsettling. I’m not gonna lie,” Christopher’s brother, John, told Channel 2’s Tyisha Fernandes in November.
Hanna’s brother and the Walton County Sheriff’s Office had been searching for Hanna.
Then, detectives located Hanna’s truck in Coweta County.
A blurry surveillance video shows a man getting out of Hanna’s truck. The GBI now says that man was Kennedy, and he got into an SUV registered to Chaffin.
Agents then got a tip that Kennedy killed Hanna at Chaffin’s business, where Hanna worked.
The GBI said they searched the business and found confirmed human blood.
That’s when Chaffin and Kennedy were arrested. Kennedy faces the same charges as Chaffin.
The judge gave Chaffin some bad news.
“Due to the nature of your charges, no bond has been set in your case at this time,” Scott said.
Court documents indicate Hanna hired Kennedy to work security at the business after he got out of prison on an involuntary manslaughter charge.
Agents say they found Hanna’s body at a Decatur apartment complex where Kennedy once lived.
Kennedy is being held without bond as well.
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