Details remain scarce days after a 28-year-old man was gunned down in a triple shooting that spread across several locations in DeKalb County.
Police on Tuesday identified the deceased as Nicholas Moton. No one has been charged in the killing, which police have described as a murder.
Two people were also injured in the shooting last Wednesday off Snapfinger Woods Drive in south DeKalb.
Two 18-year-old twin brothers, Phalen and Paris Edwards of Decatur, are charged with making false statements.
Arrest warrants released this week allege that after first denying any knowledge, they admitted they were in an involved car when the shooting happened.
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“Forensic evidence shows they are not being truthful,” the documents say, without offering details.
Police have said the shootings may have been related to a drug deal.
Officers were called to the 700 block of Creste Drive on Wednesday morning. They found a man shot in a building breezeway.
“The victim stated he had been walking along Snapfinger Woods Drive when four males in a white car tried to rob him,” DeKalb police spokeswoman Shiera Campbell said last week. “When he ran, they shot him.”
More calls to police came.
At Snapfinger Woods Drive and Shellbark Drive, they found Moton dead in a white Jeep that had smashed into a tree.
Less than a mile away, another shooting victim, identified as Phalen Edwards, was found walking with his brother, police said.
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