Cobb Police Arrest Four In Austell Homicide

MARIETTA, GA — Authorities have arrested four people in connection with the shooting death last weekend of an Austell man in his apartment, the Cobb County Police Department announced Thursday. Shortly after 5:30 a.m. Sunday, police officers found the body of 31-year-old Andres Mesa-Munguia at an apartment complex in the 6800 block of Landmark Way, the police said.

The Cobb police said they're continuing to investigate the shooting, but they did not release a motive for the incident. On Tuesday, they arrested two Austell men — Santos Tomas Vasquez, 38, and Fredy Jimenez-Bonilla, 35 — "for being party to a crime of murder and aggravated assault," the police said in a statement.

On Wednesday, they arrested two Marietta men, 23-year-old Dorian Acosta and 19-year-old Anthony Yoel Parada Lopez, on charges of murder, aggravated assault and first-degree burglary.

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Anyone with information on this incident should contact the Cobb County Police Department’s Crimes Against Persons Unit at 770-499-3945.

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