2 Charged In Fatal Douglasville Motel Shooting

DOUGLASVILLE, GA — Two young men from Douglasville are behind bars and facing murder charges in the shooting death Tuesday night, Oct. 8, of a maintenance man at a local motel, according to Douglas County Sheriff Tim Pounds. Kevin James Flamer, 20, and Jeffery Lamar Kemp, 21, were arrested Tuesday in the shooting of Thomas Edward Ball Jr., 42, a maintenance worker at the Efficiency Lodge, at 2420 Fairburn Road in Douglasville.

Pounds said Thursday at a news conference that Flamer and Kemp got into an argument with Ball shortly after midnight Tuesday as they drove through the motel's parking lot, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Ball confronted the two young men "about being on the property without permission and acting suspiciously," the sheriff's office said in a statement.

The argument escalated, and one of the two men shot Ball, the sheriff's office said. Local authorities did not say Thursday whether Kemp or Flamer pulled the trigger, the AJC reported.

Sheriff's deputies were called to the motel and found Ball, who had been shot multiple times, the sheriff's office said. He was taken to a local hospital, where he he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Investigators in the sheriff's office quickly identified Flamer and Kemp as the suspects in the shooting, and they were arrested Tuesday evening at their residence in Douglasville.

Pounds said Thursday that he went to the scene of the arrest and handcuffed one of the two young men, the AJC reported.