Grantville gun range homicides | Family speaks, Jacob Muse arrest

GRANTVILLE, Ga. — Weeks immediately after the homeowners of a mom-and-pop gun shop and their grandson were shot and killed in Grantville, their household is addressing the public.

The Hawk spouse and children spoke along with regulation enforcement in a 10 a.m. Monday early morning push conference.

Grantville Law enforcement reported Richard Hawk — the son of entrepreneurs Tommy Hawk and his wife Evelyn Hawk, and the father of their teenage grandson Luke Hawk, who were being all killed in the shooting — identified the bodies of 3 of his kin at the Lock Inventory and Barrel Capturing Vary and referred to as 911.

Richard is also the Coweta County coroner. At the Monday push convention, together with his wife, Donna, and daughter, Audrey, Richard reported the family members is grateful to be aspect of these types of a supportive neighborhood. 

“It feels like your heart’s imploded just in pieces, and to see the love and help we’ve gotten, it takes just one of people small parts and puts it again in place,” he mentioned.

Authorities announced an arrest times following the capturing on April 15, contacting it a joint work involving various regulation enforcement businesses.

“When the get in touch with arrived that evening, I just reside a few miles from there, so I went,” Coweta County Sheriff Lenn Wooden reported as he turned visibly psychological. “I failed to do just about anything. The sheriff’s workplace was there as a help position, and we ended up there to guide in any way we could. It was Metropolis of Grantville’s jurisdiction.”

Jacob Christian Muse, a 21-yr-aged of College or university Park, is billed with a few counts of malice murder in the family’s April 8 shooting deaths.

Despite the fact that law enforcement earlier stated Muse frequented the gun retail store and understood the Hawks, on Monday, Richard said he did not know Muse personally. 

Richard reported he felt like “a ton of bricks” had been lifted off his shoulders when he listened to somebody was charged in his cherished ones’ killing. 

The household is not addressing the public once more right until, Richard reported, justice is severed. He’s hoping Muse is reprimanded to “the fullest extent of the regulation.”

“As a coroner I’ve… informed a large amount of individuals out there — and I’m sorry for it — that there is going to be closure a single day. I do not imagine there is. That term will not be in my vocabulary anymore,” Richard said.

Grantville Police Chief Steve Whitlock reported officers had been not commenting on any point of the investigation, and that the push conference was only to listen to from the household. However, at the time of Muse’s arrest, Whitlock stated the motive for the assault was mysterious.