Authorities on Tuesday took a suspect into custody in a Cobb County shooting that killed two people, including a young mother, and critically injured a third person.
Lester Piercefield was arrested in Paulding County in the deaths of 27-year-old Jeremy Davis of Carrollton and 24-year-old Lena Wolfe of Austell, according to Cobb County police. Davis, Wolfe and a 26-year-old woman from Austell were shot early Monday at the Premier Apartments off Riverside Parkway.
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The sole survivor called police about 4:20 a.m. and was believed to be the only witness to the shooting, which happened inside an apartment on Westwood Place. She is expected to survive her injuries, police said. According to Piercefield’s warrant, she was shot in the head.
The suspect also shot Wolfe in the head and shot Davis in the body and leg, the warrant states.
Investigators have not said what motivated the shooting or how Piercefield was tied to the case. It was not known how the three victims were connected.
On Tuesday, Wolfe’s friends and family gathered to collect diapers, clothes and food for her three children, Channel 2 Action News reported. Her youngest child is just 5 months old.
“She had a big heart,” Wolfe’s fiancé, Wendell Evans, told the news station. “And now I got to figure out how to tell these kids. I haven’t even told them that their mom is gone.”
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Cobb police announced Piercefield’s arrest around 10:15 p.m. Tuesday. He was taken into custody with the help of the Paulding County SWAT team at an undisclosed location before being taken to the Cobb jail.
Piercefield, who is from Dallas, Georgia, was being held without bond on two counts of murder and three counts of aggravated assault.
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