Crime & Safety
Arrest Made In Violent Clarkston Stabbing Death
A Decatur man is accused of stabbing Troy Cosby 33 times with a small knife.
DECATUR, GA —A Decatur man has been arrested on charges that he stabbed a man 33 times with a small knife until the man died. Gianni Maziah Harris, 21, was arrested Tuesday.
Harris is charged with murdering Troy Cosby, a Clarkston, Georgia, man, in 2018. According to the warrant issued on July 22, 2019, Mr. Cosby was stabbed 33 times with a small knife.
Harris was located in Lithonia, where he was arrested and taken to the DeKalb County jail without incident.
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