Douglas Glenn Parker
A Dalton man accused of shooting his mother and sister recently was arrested for threatening to kill his mother and himself when they tried to break him of a prescription drug addiction, records show.
Doug Parker, 54, has been charged in the deaths of his mother, 71-year-old Edna Sue Fields, and his 45-year-old sister Becky Wade. The two were found dead Friday in Fields’ home in Ranger, Ga. Parker and his wife, Janet Kay Parker, had been staying in the home for about six months, neighbors have said.
On Saturday, the Parkers were arrested in Cherokee County, N.C., in separate incidents, but both were charged with trafficking opium or heroin.
They have since been transferred to the Gordon County Jail.
On May 19, Wade called deputies to Fields’ home, saying that Doug Parker had grabbed their mother by the neck and pushed her, according to a report from the Gordon County Sheriff’s Office.