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Victims of Crabapple Ct Triple Murder Identified – July 1st, 2024
Crabapple Ct Murder Suspect Identified – July 1st, 2024
Editors Note: The information below has been compiled by NCST from dispatch audio during the incident. It is not comprehensive, is prone to change, and focuses on the response to the incident.
Summary
Just after 1 AM, on Saturday, June 29th, 2024, E911 received a call from a residence off Whitewater Place reporting an unknown woman who was banging on their door, asking for help and telling them to call the police.
Units with the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to the area. When they arrived and began investigating, E911 received another call, this time from a residence off Sweetwater Place, with the caller again stating an unknown woman was ringing the doorbell and screaming for them to call 911.
Units quickly made contact with the suspicious woman and after speaking with her turned their attention to her residence, off Crabapple Court, where she has run from and where she states her husband is still located.
As officers arrived at the residence and started to approach, they noticed two individuals on the porch, with one officer coming upon a deceased male in the driveway.
While units begin fanning out to surround the house, they command the individuals on the porch to come down with their hands up. One male, a juvenile, follows those commands and is taken into custody while the other runs back into the house. Officers then reported hearing a gunshot coming from inside the house.
A unit moving around the side of the house to gain better visibility would then report coming upon another deceased male victim. Units would complete the creation of a perimeter surrounding the house and in an attempt to gain visibility on the suspect deployed a drone.
Units would complete the creation of a perimeter surrounding the house and in an attempt to gain visibility of the suspect, they deployed a drone. Unable to enter the house, the drone would nevertheless provide units with the sighting of a third deceased victim, a female, located in a doorway.
Patrol units on the scene of the incident hold their perimeter as the CCSO Swat team, and shortly thereafter the NPD Swat team, along with their armored vehicles, are called to service.
As units awaited the deployment of the SWAT team, an unknown male was located in the woods behind the house. The male would tell police that he ran from the back of the house as the shooting started and had run into the woods before passing out.
After hours of SWAT operations, the scene was cleared, and the body of the suspect was located within the residence, dead by his own hand.
In total 3 individuals would be detained, treated at a local hospital, and released within hours of the end of the incident.
Timeline of Events
Time
Event
1:17 AM
E911 Dispatches units to a residence off Whitewater Place regarding a suspicious female at the resident’s door asking for them to call the police.
1:30 AM
CCSO Units arrive at the residence of the first 911 call and make contact with the resident as they begin to attempt to locate the suspicious woman.
1:36 AM
E911 receives a call from a residence off Sweetwater Place with the caller reporting a suspicious woman at their door asking for them to call the police.
1:40 AM
to
2:10 AM
Units respond to the address of the new caller, finally making contact with the suspicious woman. After speaking with her they request EMS for her. They also attempt to make phone contact with her husband, whom she states is at her residence off Crabapple Court. Several units begin relocating to that address.
2:11 AM
Units arrive at the Crabapple Court address and note there’s someone at the door of the residence as they get out of their patrol vehicles, adding that they are going in and out of the house.
2:14 AM
A unit approaching the house up the driveway reports locating a deceased male victim lying in the driveway near a vehicle.
Units on scene move to gain visual on all sides of the house and create a perimeter.
2:21 AM
Units are told to hold their positions on the perimeter as they reach them, SWAT is being called into service.
2:23 AM
The first units have a visual on the rear of the house.
Units on the front side of the house note that there are two individuals who are now on the porch of the house.
Units start verbalizing commands to the individuals to come down from the porch with their hands up.
2:24 AM
One male juvenile follows the commands, coming down to officers where he is placed in handcuffs and detained before being moved further from the scene for investigation.
The second male on the porch turns and runs through the door into the house.
A unit that has been working to safely flank the house to set a perimeter informs units that they have come across a deceased male victim beside a second vehicle outside of the house.
2:25 AM
Units report hearing a single gunshot from the inside of the residence.
2:28 AM
Units deploy a drone in hopes of gaining access to the residence and obtaining the status of the suspect seen running back into the house.
2:32 AM
The unit operating the drone informs dispatch and other officers that while unable to enter the residence, they’ve located a third deceased victim, this time a woman, in a doorway of the residence.
2:40 AM
All units confirm they’ve established a secure perimeter and have visuals on all sides of the residence. They are instructed to remain at these positions until SWAT arrives.
2:41 AM
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3:19 AM
Units on the perimeter watch the house for movement as other units speak with the original victim who fled the house and the juvenile who was detained trying to get more information regarding the incident and the suspect as SWAT members arrive.
3:20 AM
SWAT’s Bearcat arrives on the scene.
Patrol units that are on the perimeter are notified that units from NPD’s SWAT team will be arriving at the location and taking their positions so they can return to normal patrol.
3:50 AM
A middle-aged male is detained in the woods behind the residence and brought to the staging area where EMS is requested to check him out. He is quoted as saying that he’d fled during the original shooting and made his way to the woods behind the house where he passed out.
It’s unclear from radio traffic if he was located by units or if he walked up to units on the perimeter.
4:46 AM
NPD SWAT members relieve all CCSO patrol units on the scene that are on the perimeter allowing them to resume patrol duties.
6:49 AM
Dispatch is notified that the scene is cleared safe and that units, including Fire/EMS and the Coroner, that had been staging nearby were clear to enter the scene.
Official Statments
On Saturday, June 29th, 2024 at 9:00 AM, the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office released the following statement to the press as well as on their Facebook Page.
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 29, 2024
Murder/Suicide
On June 29, 2024, shortly after 1:00am, Coweta County Sheriff’s Office Patrol responded to a residence on Crabapple Ct. as Coweta E-911 received multiple calls for assistance from the area.
As Deputies arrived at the residence in question, they located two deceased bodies in the driveway and one in the doorway. One male ran inside the residence and a gunshot was heard.
Coweta County SWAT was activated and responded to the scene. The residence was secured and a fourth deceased person was located inside the house.
The CCSO Criminal Investigation Unit is on scene and is actively investigating this incident. At this time, it appears to be a murder/suicide.
No names are being released at this time pending the notification of family of the deceased.
Additional information will be provided as it becomes available.
Further Information
Map of Incident Locations
- Area of first call to E911 reporting a suspicious woman.
- Area of second call and location where units make contact with the woman who fled the incident.
- Area of the residence at which the incident occurred.
