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Andres Meza Munguia, 33, was shot multiple times while he slept on his couch in an Austell, Georgia, apartment on July 29, 2018. Investigators say the killing was planned inside the home and that his roommate, Santos Tomas Vasquez, orchestrated the plot.
Authorities allege Vasquez, 38 at the time, recruited Fredy Jimenez, 35, and two younger men, 23-year-old Dorian Acosta and 19-year-old Anthony Lopez. Cell tower records, phone logs and surveillance footage are reported to place the four at the scene: Vasquez and Jimenez drove Acosta and Lopez to the Landmark Way apartment, Jimenez let them in, and Acosta and Lopez carried out the shooting. Vasquez and Jimenez then returned later and called police, pretending to have discovered the body.
All four men were arrested. Acosta, Lopez and Jimenez pleaded guilty; Vasquez was tried, convicted of malice murder and other charges, and received a life sentence alongside the others. Did anyone who knew Andres or lived in that Austell complex notice anything unusual in the days before July 29, 2018?