Daylon Gamble found in Indiana
Sorrells: Calling shootings gang-related ‘inaccurate and premature’
The Rockmart police chief said previous information linking double shootings in January, which left four dead, to gangrelated activities was both “inaccurate and premature.”
Rockmart Police Chief Keith Sorrells said in a Jan. 30 release his intention is to provide accurate information but also keep the integrity of the investigation and future prosecution of 27-yearold Daylon Delon Gamble intact. This came in the days following Gamble’s capture in Indiana as police continued their investigation into the double shootings last week.
In his statement, he said that “At this time, any previous statements or information indicating that the recent shooting that rocked the Rockmart community was in some manner gang-related would be both inaccurate and premature.”
Gamble remains in custody in Indianapolis, Indiana, on murder charges filed by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation following the Jan. 24 shootings.
Gamble is accused of shooting five people, killing four, at two different locations in Rockmart on Jan. 24. All five people were shot in the head and Polk County Coroner Tony Brazier earlier described them akin to an “execution.”
Helen Rose Mitchell, 48, and Jaequnn Davis, 19, were killed at a Williamson Street home. Arkeyla Perry, 24, and Dadrian Cummings, 26, were killed at a Rome Street home. The two locations were within three blocks of one another.
Gamble fled after the shootings and law enforcement agencies went on a nationwide manhunt. They’d originally found a black Ford pickup truck
which police say he had stolen shortly after the incident in Bartow County. On Jan. 27, he was found by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Service’s Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force.
The statement said law enforcement from several
agencies are still on the case, but for the moment they won’t be providing any additional information on what they find “until such time that it is appropriate to do so.”
As police continue to look into the case, a 24-yearold man who was also shot continues to improve on a daily basis.
Peerless Brown, who was found shot and severely injured at the Williamson Street crime scene, is getting better by the day, Brazier said.
He said in an update midweek as January came to a close that Brown’s condition that it was likely he would soon be moved out of intensive care as he gets better.