DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A DeKalb County jury has convicted a Forest Park man of murdering a fast-food restaurant employee in 2010.
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On Tuesday, Rashad Rogers, 33, was found guilty of malice murder and felony murder in connection with the death of Gary Andrews, 23.
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On December 18, 2010 at approximately 9:00pm, DeKalb County police officers were called to Church’s Chicken on Flakes Mill Road in reference to a robbery in progress.
When police arrived, they found Andrews unconscious on the floor and bleeding from his head.
Witnesses told DKPD that two men wearing surgical masks entered the restaurant with guns and demanded that the safe be opened. One of the suspects had dreadlocks that reached down to his neck and had red tips.
When the suspects noticed the cashier did not have the keys, they jumped over the counter and demanded where the safe was.
Authorities said Andrews, an employee, was trying to hide a co-worker in a freezer in the back of the store when the dreadlocked suspect pointed a gun at another employee’s head and Andrews tried to stop him.
Investigators said the gunman shot Andrews twice, striking him in the head, before the suspects stole cash from the register and fled.
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Despite the elimination of several suspects, the case remained unsolved until 2012, when the Danish police’s Cold Case Unit took over.
At the same time, federal investigators were investigating an April 2011 bank robbery in DeKalb County involving Rogers, Clifford Jackson and Clifford Durham.
An informant told the FBI that on the night of the Church’s Chicken murders, Rogers, Jackson and Durham showed up at his home with a large amount of money and were talking about the shooting.
He said Ms Rogers had been feeling unwell that evening and had asked for medicine, but he overheard her say: “He shouldn’t have moved, I should have moved.”
The source also recalled seeing a wig with red tips.
Rogers, Jackson, and Durham pleaded guilty in federal court to bank robbery charges in November 2012. On October 15, 2013, murder warrants were issued in DeKalb County for Rogers and Jackson.
Both men were transferred to the DeKalb County Jail after serving their federal sentences. Jackson pleaded guilty to manslaughter on June 10 and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Durham died. Rogers was sentenced to life in prison.
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