{"id":233827,"date":"2025-10-07T09:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=233827"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:04:20","slug":"suspect-arrested-after-double-homicide-at-decatur-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=233827","title":{"rendered":"Suspect Arrested After Double Homicide at Decatur Apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A man wanted in connection with two deaths at an East Perimeter Pointe apartment complex was taken into custody just before midnight Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\ud83d\udea8 Why It Matters:<\/strong> Christopher Mathis had been the subject of an hours-long manhunt after police say two people were found dead in what investigators believe was a domestic incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u23f1\ufe0f What Happened:<\/strong> DeKalb County Police responded to the East Perimeter Pointe Apartments in Decatur around 7:45 p.m. Monday. Officers found an adult man and an adult woman dead inside an apartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Detectives identified Mathis as the suspect and warned the public he was driving a black Jeep Renegade. Authorities urged anyone who spotted him not to approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Henry County Police took Mathis into custody around midnight. He was transported to DeKalb County Jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Sources:<\/strong> DeKalb County Police Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man wanted in connection with two deaths at an East Perimeter Pointe apartment complex was taken into custody just before midnight Monday. \ud83d\udea8 Why It Matters: Christopher Mathis had been the subject of an hours-long manhunt after police say two people were found dead in what investigators believe was a domestic incident. \u23f1\ufe0f What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":27439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"above","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[19338,18434,19339],"class_list":["post-233827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-christopher-mathis","tag-double-homicide","tag-east-perimeter-pointe","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}