ARRESTS FROM THE INVESTIGATION
Desmond Lavonta Brown, Devin Lashawn Watts and Christopher Leedarius Pullen have all been charged with murder.
Brown and Watts are each charged with malice murder as well as several predicate charges, including felony murder and aggravated assault. Pullen is charged with felony murder. All three are charged with theft by taking, abandonment of a dead body and tampering with evidence as well.
Also arrested in the case:
♦ Kayra Vinnette Morgan-Edwards, on felony false statements and writings and concealment of facts.
She is accused of lying and concealing information from GBI agents during the investigation. Edwards is a former jail officer with the
Floyd County Sheriff’s Office. She was terminated on April 18, 2019, according to jail records.
♦ Julie Ann Satterfield is charged with the felonies making false statements and meth possession as well as misdemeanor possession of drug-related objects.
♦ Dion Lavarius Wade is charged with felony false statements and writings, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of ecstasy.
♦ Jatavious Markel Smith is charged with felony possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of more than one ounce of marijuana with intent to distribute. Smith is accused of having a .38 caliber Taurus revolver as well as marijuana in a 2007 Chevy Tahoe on May 18 at a Branham Avenue address.
♦ Devion Tremaine Neal is charged with felony false statements and writings as well as possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. He is also charged with possession of drug-related objects.
♦ Alec Heath Brogdon is charged with selling a stolen Glock .380 pistol to Watts in May after the killings had occurred.