The bodies of two young men who went missing on Dec. 21, 2018, have been found months later with gunshot wounds.
Gwinnett County Police Department confirmed Joshua Jackson and Derrick Ruff, both 25, were located inside a storage unit at the Extra Space Storage in Lawrenceville, Georgia, on March 17.
The department’s Corporal Michele Pihera is now leading the double homicide investigation with assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Safe Streets Task Force and Athens-Clarke County Police Department (ACCPD) team led by Criminal Investigation Bureau Captain Jerry Saulters.
Jackson and Ruff were last seen in a Ford Expedition at about 10 p.m. on Dec. 18 last year. Police found the abandoned vehicle three days later in a neighborhood off Monfort Road in Lawrenceville.
The pair were discovered with the help of cadaver dogs from Alpha Team K9 Search and Rescue while patrolling the Lawrenceville Highway near Clearwater Place. The canines alerted police to a storage unit in the Extra Space Storage facility.
Four suspects have been identified and their motives appear to be gang-related. They include Robert Carlisle, 32, Justin Davis, 29, Lesley Green, 30, and Shabbazz Guidry, 24.
“The investigators are in the process of identifying all the suspects in this case. As of now, two people have been charged in relation to this crime,” police said.
Green, who is from Stone Mountain, is being held at Gwinnett County Jail, charged with two counts of concealing the death of another.
Although Carlisle, from Lithonia, has two active warrants for concealing the death of another he was not in police custody at the time of publication.
“As more suspects are identified, additional people could be charged,” police said. “Green and Carlisle could face more criminal charges.”
Detectives are trying to determine the link between the storage facility unit, suspects, and victims.
“The renters of the storage unit have been cooperative with this investigation,” police said.
A cash reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest and indictment in this case.
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