Two people have been arrested in connection with the murder of former Riverhead resident Gabriel Jackson II, the McDuffie County, Georgia sheriff’s office announced on Friday.
Photo: McDuffie County Sheriff’s Office
Sanriquez Antonio Williams, 22, was arrested by a SWAT team in Columbia County, Georgia at 11:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 22, according to a McDuffie County sheriff’s office press release.
Williams will be charged with murder.
Earlier last week, a 15-year-old boy was charged with murder in Jackson’s death and was taken into custody, the sheriff’s office said.
Jackson’s body was found Aug. 13 around 8 p.m. by a McDuffie County deputy sheriff on routine patrol in southern McDuffie County.
Jackson, a resident of South Augusta, went missing Aug. 10 when he was last seen leaving his apartment complex.
Jackson, 32, was a 2006 graduate of Riverhead High School, where he played on the varsity basketball team. His 6’-8” height earned him the nickname “Stretch.” He was the father of a 3-year-old son and was expecting the birth of twins.
He moved south with his mother JoAlice Hunt and brother Tylete Hardin, hoping to find a more affordable place to live, his aunt Bernice Brown of Riverhead said in a phone interview Aug. 14.
Memorial services were held in Riverhead on Thursday morning. Burial followed at Riverhead Cemetery.
The McDuffie County sheriff’s office was assisted in the investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Columbia County sheriff’s office and the public, according to the release.
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