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Meriwether County Sheriff’s Office arrests final suspect in home invasion murder case
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Meriwether County Sheriff’s Office arrests final suspect in home invasion murder case

MERIWETHER COUNTY, Ga.The Meriwether County Sheriff said that the last known member of a gang responsible for the death of a 46-year-old woman shot and killed in her own bed is finally in custody.

Jamire Montrelle Jones, 22, of Woodbury, was charged with murder, malicious murder, aggravated assault and criminal damage to property in the first degree. Meriwether County Sheriff Chuck Smith said Jones has been on the run since a multi-agency undercover operation on Sept. 13. He was arrested on Tuesday in a house in Manchester.

Several local, state and federal agencies, including the United States Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force, the Meriwether County Sheriff’s Office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s West Metro Drug Task Force, conducted a coordinated raid in six various locations in Woodbury, Manchester and Greenville. , arresting four people in September. Jones was believed to be in the Knoxville, Tennessee area at the time.

In addition to Jones, the following other people were arrested and are also being held in the Meriwether County Jail without bond:

  • Markevious Lorenzo Warrior, 19, of Manchester, Georgia, was charged with one count each of malicious murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and criminal damage to property in the first degree.

  • Patrick Bernard Green, 18, of Manchester, was charged with one count each of malicious murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and criminal damage to property in the first degree. He was already in custody for a separate incident in July 2024 at Warm Springs. He is charged with four counts each of aggravated assault and unlawful participation in a criminal street gang, and one count of criminal damage to property in the first degree.

  • Detavius ​​Ellison, Jr., 17, of Columbus and Manchester, was charged with one count each of malicious murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and criminal damage to property in the first degree.

  • Darius Lamon Slaton, 20, of Woodbury, was charged with one count each of malicious murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and criminal damage to property in the first degree. Slaton was already in custody on separate charges of aggravated assault and simple assault.

  • Trecursion Devon Favors, 22, of Greenville, was charged with one count each of malicious murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and criminal damage to property in the first degree.

  • Rodarian LaJeremy Lance Owens, 21, of Woodbury, was charged with one count each of malicious murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and criminal damage to property in the first degree.

  • Daveckio Sonteris Parks, 24, of Manchester, was charged with one count each of malicious murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and criminal damage to property in the first degree.

  • Eshannuel Shermaine Terry, Jr., 21, of Greenville, was charged with one count each of malicious murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and criminal damage to property in the first degree.

  • Johnny Keashone Copeland, 21, of Woodbury, was charged with one count each of malicious murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and criminal damage to property in the first degree. He was in the custody of the Department of Corrections Georgia at the time of the raid.



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Meriwether County sheriff’s investigators say up to 10 people are responsible for a fatal shooting in March 2023.

(Meriwether County Sheriff’s Office)

Warrior, Green and Ellison were already in custody at the Meriwether County Jail for a separate incident in July 2024 in Warm Springs. They are each charged with four counts each of aggravated assault and unlawful participation in criminal street gangs and a single count of criminal damage to property in the first degree.

“We currently have all known suspects, ten in total, in this heinous crime that occurred on March 19, 2023, on Tuskegee Lane, Manchester, Georgia, in custody. We are committed to seeking justice for the victim and her family. The collaborative efforts of local, state and federal agencies were instrumental in apprehending the suspect.” Sheriff Smith said.

Kim Harvey-Pollard was lying in her bed when her home in Manchester came under intense gunfire. Investigators said she was hit in the head and later died at Grady Memorial Hospital.

Investigators say ten people shot into the house after surrounding it. They said there are many different calibers of guns. She was sleeping in bed at the time. The sheriff’s office is not releasing details about the motive.

They said there could be a connection to a 2022 murder in Thomaston at a graduation party.

The sheriff’s office said this is an ongoing investigation and they expect more arrests and more charges against those who have already been arrested.