Police: Second suspect in grandmother's murder in custody

ATLANTA - Atlanta Police said they have arrested a second man named in connection to a violent carjacking earlier this week and the murder of a 49-year-old grandmother.

Khalid Bays, 18, turned himself in at the Atlanta Police Department Headquarters Friday. He was booked into the Fulton County Jail charged in connection to the murder of Beverly Jenkins.

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Jenkins died on Aug. 12 when a bullet struck her in the head as she drove home from a shift at the City of Refuge where she worked helping homeless mothers. A witness saw her car run off the road near the intersection of Hopkins Street and Westview Drive. Officers found Jenkins’ body in the minivan when they arrived.

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Investigators announced Bays as a suspect on Wednesday. Police said the break in the murder case came after a violent carjacking early Monday morning at a gas station on Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard. Police said the victim there was shot twice. Forensic experts were able to link the shell casings fired at the victim to Jenkin’s murder case.

Officers arrested 17-year-old Adarius Jones early Wednesday morning after a brief chase of the car taken during the carjacking. Jones’ arrested eventually led officers to take out warrants for Bays.

Both likely will face murder, armed robbery, and host of other charges.

Police have not charged or identified the other two people who were spotted alongside Bays and Jones in surveillance video shortly after the Jenkins’ murder.

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