A Cobb County grand jury has indicted the alleged gunman and the two accomplices accused in a double killing that police believe began as a drug deal.
Roy Lee Hicks, who also goes by the name Roy Brown, Demarco Thomas and Raymond Ladell Webb are accused in the August shootings that left a couple dead. It was during an alleged drug transaction that Anthony Costner, 24, and his 22-year-old wife, Catherine, were shot and killed in front of their 3-year-old daughter, according to police.
Shortly before 2 a.m. Aug. 6, Powder Springs officers responded to what they thought was a single-vehicle accident along Parks Drive near Sharon Drive.
Instead, officers found a red 2000 Pontiac Grand Am backed into a ditch. Inside the car, Anthony Coster was dead from multiple gunshot wounds and his wife was also shot. Catherine Costner died after being taken to a hospital. The couple’s daughter was not injured.
Hicks was the gunman, according to the Oct. 22 indictment. He was indicted on 14 charges, including malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, cruelty to children, firearm possession and drug possession.
According to investigators, Webb used his cellphone to set up the meeting so Hicks could sell roxycodone to the Costners. Hicks was also shot during the drug deal with the Costners, police said. After the Costners were shot, Thomas and Webb also allegedly drove Hicks to Atlanta Medical Center for treatment.
Thomas and Webb were each indicted on two counts of concealing a death, hindering the apprehension of a criminal and conspiracy to violate Georgia’s controlled substance act.
All three suspects were being held without bond Thursday night at the Cobb County jail.
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