JEFFERSON COUNTY, AL – A shocking development has emerged in a decade-old triple homicide case in Georgia, leading to the arrest of four suspects, including an assistant principal from an Alabama middle school. Keante Harris, 45, was taken into custody on three charges of malice murder, as announced by the Clayton County Police Department.
Harris, who is an assistant principal at McAdory Middle School in Jefferson County, Alabama, has been suspended from his duties following his arrest. The case dates back 11 years when an abandoned 2010 Dodge Charger was found near Interstate 85 by Union City Police, with three bodies inside.
The grim discovery led to an investigation that revealed the victims had been tortured and killed in Clayton County, before their bodies were discarded in Fulton County. The deceased were identified as Quinones King, 33, Rodney Cottrell, 43, and Cheryl Colquitt-Thompson, 32. Autopsy reports indicated King and Cottrell were asphyxiated in the back seat of the Charger, while Colquitt-Thompson was strangled in the car’s trunk.
The victims were apparently coerced into a residence on Magnolia Drive in Jonesboro, Georgia, at gunpoint. They were then transported to Fulton County in the Dodge Charger and their bodies were dumped. Alongside Harris, three other men, Kevin Harris, Kenneth Thompson, and Darrell Harris, were also arrested and charged with three counts of malice murder each.
The Jefferson County School District has acknowledged Harris’s arrest and confirmed his administrative leave. The connection, if any, between the three Harris men arrested is yet to be clarified.