A man who is tied to the Ghost Face Gangsters is being questioned by authorities in connection with a Coweta County home invasion that led to a 14-year-old girl’s shooting death, deputies said.
William “Bill” Tyree was arrested in Polk County on Friday by the U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force on a probation violation charge for a burglary conviction, spokesman Eric Heinze said.
He’s now “being questioned in connection with the home invasion,” the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Monday.
Tyree, born in 1988, has not been charged in the incident, which led to Haley Adams being shot and killed.
Credit: Channel 2 Action News
Credit: Channel 2 Action News
Last Tuesday about 9:30 p.m., at least four people barged into a home on Bethlehem Church Road, shouting unspecified demands before shooting, AJC.com previously reported. Adams, who was shot in the back, later died at Piedmont Newnan Hospital.
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The suspects fled in a silver, four-door passenger car, the sheriff’s office previously said. Nothing was stolen during the invasion.
There were more than a dozen evidence markers at the scene, bullet holes in the front door and a footprint where someone tried to kick it in, according to Channel 2 Action News.
Adams was one of multiple people inside the home at the time of the break-in, but no other injuries were reported.
No further details on Tyree’s potential connection to the incident have been released.
He spent nearly half of the past decade behind bars in Georgia prisons, according to Georgia Department of Corrections records. Since 2010, he has served four years and 4½ months across two prison stints.
Credit: Georgia Department of Corrections
Credit: Georgia Department of Corrections
He was convicted of criminal trespassing, burglary, possession of methamphetamine, manufacturing of methamphetamine and possession of marijuana in Meriwether County, GDC records show.
The Ghost Face Gangsters is one of the nearly 100 white supremacist prison gangs operating in the U.S., according to the Anti-Defamation League. The group originated in California in the 1970s, but a founding member started the Georgia group in 1998, according to the ADL.
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