COCHRAN, Ga. – A teenager has been charged as an adult with murder in the case of a Middle Georgia State College student who was missing for more than two weeks.
Campus police say the 17-year-old suspect from Hawkinsville was arrested Thursday. He is enrolled at a high school and at the central Georgia college. The Associated Press generally doesn’t identify juvenile suspects.
The teen is charged with murder in the disappearance and death of 19-year-old freshman Jmaal Malik Keyes of Austell, just west of Atlanta, authorities said. Keyes was living in a residence hall on the school’s Cochran campus when he was last seen April 25.
School officials said campus police worked with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and local police to search numerous times for Keyes and followed up leads, one of which led to Thursday’s arrest.
Police have not revealed details of how Keyes was slain and the body has not been found.