NASHVILLE, Ga. (AP) – A Georgia prosecutor says he will seek the death penalty for two men indicted for murder in a triple killing.
District Attorney Dick Perryman tells WALB-TV he will seek execution of 22-year-old Jonathan Vann and 27-year-old Keyante Greene if they are convicted of murder charges in the 2019 death of Mercedes Hackle.
Hackle died after she was hit in the head and shot in the face, according to Perryman’s office. Her body was found in Berrien County.
Vann and Greene were also indicted on additional charges of aggravated battery, kidnapping, burning the victim’s body to conceal her death and tampering with evidence.
Perryman said that he believes the crimes are “heinous and brutal,” making them fit for him to seek execution by lethal injection.