1 Dead, 1 Charged, 1 Unidentified In Armed Robbery: Cobb Police

COBB COUNTY, GA — One suspect in a Mableton armed robbery is still at large as of Friday afternoon, according to the Cobb County Police Department — but a second suspect is dead, and a third suspect was arrested and charged.

Officers responded to an armed robbery call around 5:50 p.m. Thursday at a Mableton home, Public Information Officer Sgt. Wayne Delk said, which led to a police chase across Cobb and Fulton counties.

After responding to the robbery call, Cobb police spotted and followed the three suspects in a car driving down I-20 and into the city of Atlanta, when the suspects crashed into an unoccupied car on the right shoulder before getting out and running. One of the suspects ran onto Martin Luther King Jr. Drive where he was hit by a van and killed — he was identified by the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office as 17-year-old Khawann Heard.

Another suspect, 21-year-old Ahday Nelson-George, was chased to a nearby apartment complex when officers saw him getting into a rideshare vehicle, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

“An APD officer quickly determined the suspect had asked a bystander to order him the ride,” Atlanta police spokesman Sgt. John Chafee told the AJC. Officers tracked the car through the bystander's phone, and Nelson-George was arrested and charged with armed robbery.

However, investigators announced Friday that Nelson-George was also linked to a January homicide in which 19-year-old Ja'Kendrick Taylor was shot and left in a burning Chevrolet Impala. Nelson-George was booked into Cobb County Jail following the chase, but will be expedited to Fulton County to face murder and aggravated assault charges, the AJC reported.

The final suspect in the armed robbery escaped and remains at large, Cobb police said, and a name has not yet been released. Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact Cobb police's Crimes Against Persons unit at 770-499-3945.