GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — Three people have been arrested in Tennessee and charged with felony murder in a shooting death this year in Georgia, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
Jamar Quarles and two juveniles, ages 15 and 16, were located in Memphis and taken into custody, the Marshals Service said Thursday. All three were arrested without incident
One address was near 2500 Jeffries Cove and the other 8200 Dexter Ridge.
They are charged in the death of Kapri Ward, who was fatally shot in Gwinnett County on July 1.
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Channel 2′s Kristen Holloway spoke the Ward’s father, who lives in the same apartment complex. He said that his son was being robbed when the shooting happened.
“I heard banging noises, and I thought it was banging from inside the apartment but my two youngest children came home frantically saying that their brother was shot, they saw blood. So I ran outside and I saw him laying on the floor,” said Tirrell Acevedo. “It looked like it he had a shoot out. Looked like he was shot, someone was going to rob him. I know he wasn’t a perfect young man but he didn’t deserve this.”
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Investigators with the U.S. Marshals Two Rivers Violent Fugitive Task Force worked with the U.S. Marshals Office in Atlanta to find the three.
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The task force is made up of multiple agencies in the Western District of Tennessee with offices in Memphis and Jackson.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report