GA Woman's Body Found, Four Murder Warrants Issued

GEORGIA — Authorities are seeking five people — three from metro Atlanta, one from Oklahoma and one unidentified — in connection with the death of a Barrow County woman whose body was found in north Georgia.

Murder warrants have been issued in Gilmer County for Megan Alyssa Colone, 30, of Stone Mountain; Juan Ayala-Rodriguez, 35, of Gainesville; Oscar Manuel Garcia, 26, of Austell; and Mario Alberto Barbosa-Juarez, 29, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The warrants were announced Saturday by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Those four — plus the fifth unidentified suspect, a male — are wanted in connection with the death of Rossana Delgado, 37, of Bethlehem, Georgia, who was found Tuesday during a welfare check at a residence in Cherry Log. Delgado was first reported missing on April 16 by her husband, who had last seen her the previous day and was worried that foul play was involved. Delgado was last seen in DeKalb County on April 16.

According to WXIA-TV in Atlanta, Delgado spoke to her husband by phone early the evening of April 15, just before picking up a person for her job as a taxi driver. Delgado’s husband traced her last movements through her phone, first to DeKalb County and then to a public storage unit on Covington Highway. There, he found a bloodied face mask at the storage unit, reported the Atlanta news station.

Delgado was last seen on surveillance video at a Ross store at Plaza Fiesta in Chamblee. She was next to an unidentified woman.

Although autopsy results were still pending on Monday, a GBI spokesperson said the agency is investigating Delgado’s death as a murder.

The five suspects may no longer be in Georgia, according to the GBI. Colone, the lone female in the group, may be traveling with her minor children under the alias Grace Beda.

Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Colone, Ayala-Rodriguez, Garcia or Barbosa-Juarez can call the GBI Tipline at 1-800-597-8477 (TIPS), report the information online at the GBI's website or by downloading the mobile app, See Something Send Something.

Anyone who sees the suspects should not approach them. Instead, call 911 immediately.

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