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2 Marietta men arrested in fatal shooting at hotel

Cobb County police comb the area surrounding a hotel Thursday morning, June 18, 2015 after a man was shot and killed late Wednesday. Officers were called to the Masters Inn on Windy Hill Road, where a man died in a breezeway. JOHN SPINK / JSPINK@AJC.COM
Cobb County police comb the area surrounding a hotel Thursday morning, June 18, 2015 after a man was shot and killed late Wednesday. Officers were called to the Masters Inn on Windy Hill Road, where a man died in a breezeway. JOHN SPINK / JSPINK@AJC.COM
By Daniel Funke
June 18, 2015

Cobb County police have arrested two men in connection with the shooting death of an Atlanta man at a hotel in Marietta on Wednesday night.

Fredrick Hodge, 23, and Joseph Cory McCoy, 26, are accused of killing Demetrius Towns at the Masters Inn on Windy Hill Road, police said Thursday.

After responding to multiple 911 calls from the hotel, police found Towns, 32, in a second-floor breezeway suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He died at the scene.

Hodge and McCoy, both of Marietta, are charged with felony murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. They are being held in the Cobb County Adult Detention Center without bond.

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