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Thomas B. Sanders
Two murder suspects are being held in the DeKalb County Jail without bond.
DeKalb Sheriff’s deputies arrested 34-year-old Thomas B. Sanders on Tuesday and nabbed 24-year-old Emmanuel Lewis Spinks of Stone Mountain on June 9.
Both men were arrested on charges of gunning down victims earlier this year.
Sanders, whose city of residence is unknown, allegedly murdered Malinowsky Duranteoyoki Harris of Decatur on July 4 after the two got in an argument inside the Shell gas station on Wesley Chapel Road in Decatur.
Minutes after both men left the store, shots were fired and Harris was shot in the head and back. He was pronounced dead after being transported to Grady Hospital in Atlanta.
On July 14, officers spotted Sanders in a black truck and followed him to several locations before they arrested him at his 16-year-old girlfriend’s house on Athens Lane in Atlanta.
Authorities believe that Spinks shot 21-year-old Charles Patton of Decatur to death on May 11 near Patton’s residence on Creste Drive. The criminal arrest warrant says that in the days leading up to the victim’s death, Spinks allegedly assaulted friends of the victim and said that he was coming after Patton and his friends and family.
Spinks was arrested without incident at the corner of Memorial Drive and Mountain Drive after a tip.