Suspect captured in Georgia country club triple homicide
KENNESAW, Ga. — Authorities on Thursday afternoon arrested a man in the killing of three men found shot to death on the golf course of a suburban Atlanta country club.
Cobb County sheriff’s deputies and U.S. marshals arrested
Bryan Rhoden in Chamblee, more than 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of where
the slain men were discovered Saturday, Cobb County Police Chief Tim Cox said during
a news conference Thursday evening.
Rhoden faces three counts of murder, three counts of
aggravated assault and two counts of kidnapping, Cox said. The police chief
described Rhoden as the “lone shooter” in the slayings but he declined to give
further details about what prompted the violence.
“We literally had detectives that have worked around the
clock and some have literally slept in their offices since July 3rd trying to
clear this case,” Cox said.
Police say golf pro Eugene Siller was gunned down Saturday
when he went to find out why a white pickup truck had driven onto the 10th
green at Pinetree Country Club in Kennesaw, northwest of Atlanta.
Two other men were found dead from gunshot wounds in the bed
of the pickup truck. Police identified them as 46-year-old Henry Valdez of
California and 76-year-old Paul Pierson of Kansas.
Investigators believe that Siller, 46, was slain because he
came upon a “crime in progress,” police have said. It doesn’t appear that he
was targeted, and the other men appear to have “no relation to the location at
all,” police had said in a statement. Pierson was the truck’s registered owner.
Police haven’t commented on any possible motive for the
killings of the two men whose bodies were found in the pickup.
It wasn’t immediately known if Rhoden has an attorney who
could speak on his behalf.
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