Atlanta Couple Who Threatened to Kill Man’s Dog but Killed Him Instead, Get Fictional Sentence of “Life Plus 5”; 2nd Murder Committed at Vic's Funeral

 

The loving couple: They’ll do 10, maybe 20
 

[N.S.: I sought, unsuccessfully, to find a picture of murder victim Keith Jacobs, but instead learned that a second person, Tomika Webb, was murdered at Jacobs’ funeral. I couldn't find a picture of her, either.]

 
Atlanta couple kills man over dog, gets life
By Christopher Seward
7:29 p.m. Wednesday, February 1, 2012
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A woman and her boyfriend were given life sentences Wednesday for fatally gunning down a neighbor over a dog, the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office said.

Prosecutors said Renita Collins, 33, confronted Keith Jacobs, 29, in his Addison Place front yard the night of March 2, claiming his dog had chased her around the neighborhood off Hollywood Road in Atlanta.

Collins threatened to get a gun and shoot the dog, prosecutors said. She left to get the weapon and returned around 11 p.m. to Jacobs’ home with her boyfriend, Michael Stallworth, 34, who was also armed.

Prosecutors said both Collins and Stallworth approached Jacobs’ home firing their weapons, mortally striking Jacobs in the head as neighbors watched. He was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The couple then fled but surrendered several days later, escorted by their attorneys. They were charged with murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and weapons offenses.

Jurors returned guilty verdicts against Collins and Stallworth on Wednesday morning. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville sentenced the couple to life plus five years in prison.

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Kelvin Bradley, suspect in the Tomika Webb murder. I could find nothing new on this case, since Bradley turned himself in last March.
 

Man Comes Forward in Funeral Gathering Killing
11:41 a.m. Friday, March 18, 2011; updated 1:31 p.m. Friday, March 18, 2011
WSBTV
 

ATLANTA —

A man has come forward in a deadly shooting outside a funeral gathering last Friday afternoon.

Police said the victim was pelted by bullets as she drove away from an argument with other funeral-goers. The killing went unsolved for a week, but 27-year-old Kelvin Bradley turned himself in Friday morning.

Man Surrenders in Funeral Gathering Killing

The victim, Tomika Webb, went to a funeral for Keith Jacobs to confront someone, Atlanta police Detective Jarvis Jackson said. Afterward, a gathering was held at a home on Addison Place in Atlanta. Jacobs was shot in the head in front of the same home a week before.

Police said an altercation between Webb and a group of people standing outside escalated into gunfire. She began to drive away but was unable to dodge the bullets.

“Whoever killed her knew they could kill her. She's defenseless. She had no weapon. She didn't know to tote no weapon on her,” Webb’s sister, Ganell, said.

A bullet pierced Webb’s roof, one went through her trunk, and another shattered a window and killed her, police said. Jackson said despite a reward, several people saw the shooter and never said a word.

But police think they now have their man. Bradley was charged with murder and taken to the Fulton County Jail.