Exactly two men lay dead inside a car near Harbins Road and Harbins Point Lane, a grim scene connected to a separate man found injured with a neck wound blocks away on Windscape Village Lane, evidence that three lives were violently disrupted across two distinct Gwinnett County spots late Friday night.
Investigators quickly determined the incidents were linked, establishing the initial shooting happened near a witness before the subsequent double homicide unfolded inside the vehicle, tracing the bloody sequence of events backward. The focus then shifted to 54-year-old Javier Aragon Ruiz, identified as the single suspect, who fled the metro Atlanta area completely,
managing to travel into Tennessee before state troopers finally located his car and took him into custody in Springfield. Now held at the Robertson County Sheriff’s Office, Ruiz faces charges connected to the deaths of the two, but detectives have not yet publicly shared what exactly motivated such a sudden and widespread burst of violence across the community. It is a profound tragedy for the families of the two victims.
The 28-year-old man lay dying with a gunshot wound straight to the neck inside Kevin’s Corner, a shocking end to what began as a simple altercation involving ten or so people shortly after midnight Saturday morning in Spalding County.
The initial argument at the Williamson Zebulon Road spot quickly escalated into gunfire, shattering the quiet night and leaving the victim critically injured on the scene before first responders rushed him to Wellstar Spalding Hospital, where he ultimately succumbed to his wounds. Police immediately zeroed in on 25-year-old Daulton Statham as the man who pulled the trigger, swiftly moving to take him into custody and charging him with murder, effectively stopping the immediate threat of further violence. Statham is now being held at the Spalding County Jail as investigators work to piece together the exact sequence of events that transformed a simple disagreement between patrons into a fatal encounter, with the victim’s identity still withheld pending family notification. This senseless loss of life is deeply felt by all those who knew the young man.
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Exactly two men lay dead inside a car near Harbins Road and Harbins Point Lane, a grim scene connected to a separate man found injured with a neck wound blocks away on Windscape Village Lane, evidence that three lives were violently disrupted across two distinct Gwinnett County spots late Friday night.
Investigators quickly determined the incidents were linked, establishing the initial shooting happened near a witness before the subsequent double homicide unfolded inside the vehicle, tracing the bloody sequence of events backward. The focus then shifted to 54-year-old Javier Aragon Ruiz, identified as the single suspect, who fled the metro Atlanta area completely, managing to travel into Tennessee before state troopers finally located his car and took him into custody in Springfield. Now held at the Robertson County Sheriff’s Office, Ruiz faces charges connected to the deaths of the two, but detectives have not yet publicly shared what exactly motivated such a sudden and widespread burst of violence across the community. It is a profound tragedy for the families of the two victims.
The 28-year-old man lay dying with a gunshot wound straight to the neck inside Kevin’s Corner, a shocking end to what began as a simple altercation involving ten or so people shortly after midnight Saturday morning in Spalding County. The initial argument at the Williamson Zebulon Road spot quickly escalated into gunfire, shattering the quiet night and leaving the victim critically injured on the scene before first responders rushed him to Wellstar Spalding Hospital, where he ultimately succumbed to his wounds. Police immediately zeroed in on 25-year-old Daulton Statham as the man who pulled the trigger, swiftly moving to take him into custody and charging him with murder, effectively stopping the immediate threat of further violence. Statham is now being held at the Spalding County Jail as investigators work to piece together the exact sequence of events that transformed a simple disagreement between patrons into a fatal encounter, with the victim’s identity still withheld pending family notification. This senseless loss of life is deeply felt by all those who knew the young man.
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