A woman was found dead under “suspicious” circumstances at a home near Stone Mountain early Wednesday morning, leading Gwinnett County investigators to charge her live-in boyfriend with murder the following day.
Firefighters were sent to the residence on Sheree Trail just after 4 a.m. for an unknown medical call and found a woman in her mid-40s dead, police spokeswoman Sgt. Michele Pihera said. She appeared to have been dead before the 911 call was placed, Pihera said.
The woman was later identified by police as 45-year-old Alycia Darice Scott, but officials did not share the cause or manner of her death.
The Gwinnett medical examiner was next to respond and requested a police investigation after deeming Scott’s death suspicious.
“The totality of the scene caused the homicide unit to be dispatched,” Pihera said at the time. “It’s imperative that this death is investigated as if the incident could turn into a criminal investigation.”
Scott lived at the home with her boyfriend, 50-year-old Kevin Matchen, Pihera said. During the investigation, detectives developed probable cause to charge Matchen with a variety of counts, including aggravated assault, tampering with evidence, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and theft by taking, among others.
Matchen was booked Thursday into the Gwinnett jail, where he remains without bond.
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