In the late summer of 2014, the life of a 31-year-old African American woman from Lithonia, Georgia, was tragically cut short. On September 15, Marquita Smith was found deceased, the victim of a violent act that also claimed the life of 34-year-old Nathaniel Dumas. The grim discovery was made by a maid at the Knights Inn on Panola Road, where both victims had been shot. It was believed they had been deceased for some time before their bodies were found, marking the start of a complex homicide in
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