A fugitive needed by the FBI and Atlanta for a pair of separate homicides earlier this 12 months has been taken into custody.
Investigators beforehand advised Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Mark Winne completely that Corey Comer is needed for killing 37-year-old Douglas Banks outdoors a library on Cleveland Ave. on Might 6 and 17-year-old Kendarius Davis on Nov. 17 at an residence advanced on Mount Zion Rd. SE.
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Atlanta police say Comer, 20, was arrested on Friday. He’s presently being held within the Fulton County Jail on fees of homicide, aggravated assault and extra.
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APD says Comer had been on their Most Needed record since final month.
They didn’t touch upon the place Comer was discovered.
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Detectives say that Comer used what’s referred to as a “glock swap” in Banks’ homicide to show his handgun right into a fully-automatic weapon, which the FBI says can shoot about 20 rounds in a second.
“They’re extraordinarily harmful,” FBI Performing Particular Agent in Cost Sean Burke stated. “These weapons are very exhausting to shoot after they develop into transformed to completely computerized. That has the sturdy propensity to have harmless victims be hit on high of the supposed goal.”
The FBI Atlanta says that between 2012 and 2021, there was a 570% enhance in switches being discovered at crime scenes nationally. They added that they see them at almost each metro Atlanta search warrant they serve involving gangs or violent crimes.
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