Multiple shooting deaths reported in DeKalb County
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Posted 6:26PM on Wednesday, January 16, 2002
DORAVILLE - DeKalb County police were investigating three separate shootings that left five people dead in less than 12 hours today, including four people at an apartment complex at Doraville. <br>
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Police said three people were found shot to death in an apparent murder-suicide last night at The Arbors apartment complex on Winters Chapel Road. <br>
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The bodies of a man and a woman were found in a grassy area behind an apartment building, and another man was found wounded a short distance away with a gun nearby. He died later at a hospital. <br>
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All three had gunshot wounds, but police would not say how many times they had been shot. Their names were not released. Police said all were in their mid-30s. <br>
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Lieutenant Pam Kunz said several hours later, a man was killed at the same apartment complex in an apparent domestic dispute and a woman was arrested. <br>
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Dead is 30-year-old Meockie Cameron, who lived at the complex. Twenty-four-year-old Letonika Griffin of Covington was charged with felony murder. <br>
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Kunz said the shootings at the apartment complex were unrelated. <br>
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Also last night, police answered a call to the Sunset Lodge motel in Decatur, where a man in his early 20s died in a shooting. His name has not been released.