COLUMBUS – Police say they have arrested two people suspected in five murders over the past three months in Columbus.
A tip from Crime Stoppers helped authorities catch up to the second suspect in the fatal shootings of four people in a Hudson Street home on June 13, Homicide Unit Sgt. Dave Sicilian said.
Sicilian says Robert Lee Adams, 27, was arrested in Mississippi Wednesday by members of the U.S. Marshals Service and Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Office.
They provided no immediate information on whether he had an attorney.
Police allege Adams was responsible for the June 13 shootings of four people, ranging in age from 18 to 41, inside a home at 1623 Hudson Street (above).
A teenager found injured outside the home was treated and released.
A 16-year-old boy accused of accompanying Adams and holding victims at gunpoint was charged as a juvenile with murder and kidnapping. He’s pleaded not guilty.
Columbus police say Adams is expected to be sent back to Ohio.
Police also say they have arrested an 18-year-old man suspected in the robbery and fatal shooting of a pizza delivery driver who was taking an order to a property that turned out to be vacant.
Sir Jeffrey Scott Carroll Jr. has been charged in the July 30 robbery and killing of James Flannery, 59, who drove away after being robbed and shot but then crashed at the intersection of Kimberly Parkway and S. Hamilton Road (above).
Responding officers discovered he’d been critically hurt by a gunshot. He died at a hospital.
Police say they believe Carroll had an accomplice.