COCHRAN, Ga. – A teenager has been apprehended and charged with murder in the case of a Middle Georgia State College student missing for more than two weeks, authorities said.
Campus police say the 17-year-old suspect was taken into custody Thursday night.
The Hawkinsville teenager is enrolled at a high school and at the central Georgia college, the school said in a statement.
He’s charged with murder in the disappearance and death of 19-year-old freshman Jmaal Malik Keyes of Austell, just west of Atlanta, authorities said. He 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 lead to Thursday’s arrest.