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On October 15, 2013, a shooting at a home on Anderson-Livsey Lane in Snellville, Georgia, killed 12-year-old Joseph McDonald, his mother Angelina Benton, 34, and his 19-year-old godbrother Raynord Daniel. A fourth person, Benton’s 23-year-old boyfriend Justin Cato, was shot but survived. Joseph was a student and one of three people killed in the attack.

Investigators quickly focused on 33-year-old Robert Bell. Bell and his wife had moved in with Benton about two weeks before the killings after Benton met them at her church and offered them a place to stay. Bell fled after the shootings, prompting a multi-state manhunt.

Bell was arrested on October 24, 2013, in New Orleans by U.S. Marshals and Gwinnett County deputies. Authorities traced him through digital leads and a stolen pickup truck that had been taken from near the crime scene; a Craigslist ad Bell posted and a linked YouTube video of him playing bass also helped place him in New Orleans.

Did anyone in the area know the family or remember seeing the couple around Benton’s home in the weeks before October 15?