FAYETTE COUNTY, Ga. — A man was arrested and faces charges including felony murder and aggravated assault in a Wednesday morning killing in Fayette County.
According to the Fayette County Sheriff's Office, deputies were dispatched to a home on Forrest Lake Drive just before 2 a.m. "in reference to a verbal altercation in progress."
"When they arrived, deputies located the body of a deceased adult male in the front yard of the residence," a release from the sheriff's office said.
They said the victim, identified as 38-year-old Jabrell Jerome Buggs of Atlanta, had died of a suspected gunshot wound.
The sheriff's office announced the arrest of 43-year-old Steven Andre Beacham of Douglasville.
The U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Task Force, Douglas County Sheriff's Office and Douglasville Police Department aided in locating Beacham, the sheriff's office said.