A welfare check on a Wednesday in April 2018 in Chester, Georgia, led a Dodge County deputy to the home of Everett Wendell Williams, 65, and his wife, Jain Williams, 60, where both were found dead from what appeared to be shotgun wounds. Investigators described the scene as consistent with a robbery that escalated to a double homicide; guns and a car were reported missing from the residence.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation joined the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office in the inquiry. Within a short period, law enforcement arrested four teenagers and charged them with murder: 19-year-old Kojak Thomas Jr., a 17-year-old male, and two 16-year-old males. Separately, 19-year-old Alijah Shamir Pennamon was charged with one count of theft by receiving stolen property tied to the case. The couple’s neighbors remembered them as kind and helpful members of the community.

If anyone has information about the robbery or the missing items, please share it with the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office.