In January 2019, 18-year-old Malenko Cooley was killed after accompanying 19-year-old Marquavious Harris to the Newnan Crossing Apartments in Newnan, Georgia. The two had gone to ask a resident to hold a gun; the resident told police he felt they intended to rob him, and a physical altercation broke out in a hallway. During the struggle Harris reportedly produced a pistol and shot the resident several times. Cooley fell on top of the resident, then got up and fled with Harris in a Kia registered to a relative of Cooley’s.

On January 22 law enforcement found Cooley’s body in the backseat of an abandoned car on Spring Street in LaGrange; he had a fatal gunshot wound to his upper torso. Harris turned himself in that same day to the LaGrange Police Department and was held at the Troup County Jail on an initial charge of concealing the death of another. The Newnan Police Department obtained warrants charging Harris with murder, aggravated assault, and armed robbery in connection with the Newnan apartment shooting and Cooley’s death.

Does anyone have information about Cooley’s movements between the Newnan apartment and the vehicle found in LaGrange?