CLUB
CLUB TRIPLE MURDER. >> IT IS AN ANSWERED PRAYER FOR
SURE.
SURE.
SURE. >>
SURE. >> CHARGES AGAINST A MAN POLICE
SAY LEFT TWO MEN DEAD IN THE
BACK OF A PICKUP TRUCK AND
KILLED A GOLF PRO.
THIS IS WHAT WE KNOW RIGHT NOW.
HE IS FACING THREE COUNTS OF
MURDER, THREE COUNTS OF
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT, AND TWO
COUNTS OF KIDNAPPING.
HE WAS ARRESTED JUST HOURS AGO.
WE HAVE SPECIAL LIVE TEAM
COVERAGE AS WE TRY AND BRING
TRANSPARENCY AND
TRANSPARENCY AND ANSWERS.
ANSWERS.
ANSWERS. LET'S GET STARTED WITH JOHN
SHRIEK -- JON SHIREK.
JO
SHRIEK -- JON SHIREK. JON: HE WILL BE BOOKED HERE AT
THE COBB COUNTY JAIL.
AS LOVED ONES OF THOSE HE IS
ACCUSED OF KILLING EXPRESSED
RELIEF AND ASK POLICE EXACTLY
WHAT LED UP TO THE TRIPLE
HOMICIDE.
HOMICIDE.
HOMICIDE. COBB COUNTY POLICE CHIEF TIM COX
MAKING ONE SIMPLE ANNOUNCEMENT
THURSDAY NIGHT, A MONUMENTAL
BREAK IN THE CASE.
POLICE, HE SAID, HAVE THE MAN
WHO KILLED THREE PEOPLE THIS
PAST SATURDAY.
PAST SATURDAY. >> ON JULY 8, 2021, DETECTIVES
SECURED AN ARREST WARRANT FOR
THE LONE SHOOTER WHO HAS NOW
BEEN IDENTIFIED AS BRYAN ANTHONY
RODEN.
RODEN.
RODEN. JON: IT TURNS OUT, HE WAS
ACTUALLY ARRESTED EARLY SUNDAY,
HOURS AFTER THE TRIPLE HOMICIDE.
HE WAS JAILED IN DEKALB COUNTY,
WITH NO TAG, BUT HIS NAME HAD
NOT COME UP YET IN CONNECTION
WITH THE HOMICIDES SO HE WAS
RELEASED TUESDAY NIGHT.
I ASKED THE CHIEF WHEN
INVESTIGATORS FIRST BECAME AWARE
OF HIM AS A POSSIBLE SUSPECT IN
THE HOMICIDE.
THE HOMICIDE. >> HIS NAME CAME UP WITHIN A FEW
DAYS.
DAYS.
DAYS. OF
DAYS. OF THE BEGINNING OF THE
INVESTIGATION.
INVESTIGATION. JON: CHIEF COX WOULD NOT SAY
WHAT IT WAS THAT LED THEM TO
CHARGE HIM BUT HE IS THE MAN WHO
DROVE A PICKUP TRUCK ONTO THE
PINE TREE GOLF COURSE WITH TWO
BODIES IN THE BACK OF THE
PICKUP.
PICKUP.
PICKUP. THE CHIEF SAYS THAT RHODEN HAD
KILLED THEM, KIDNAPPED AND
KILLED THEM THAT DAY AND THEN
THE CHIEF SAYS THAT RHODEN SHOT
JEAN SELLARS IN THE HEAD WHEN HE
WALKED UP TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING
ON.
ON.
ON. >>
ON. >> THE CHIEF SAID THESE WERE
"SUCH HORRIBLE AND HORRIFIC
CRIMES," HE IS NOT DISCUSSING AT
WHAT THE MOTIVE MIGHT HAVE BEEN,
WHAT SORT OF RELATIONSHIP THERE
MIGHT HAVE BEEN AMONG RHODEN AND
THE TWO MEN IN THE BACK OF THE
PICKUP TRUCK HE IS ACCUSED OF
KILLING.
KILLING.
KILLING. POLICE ARE NOT YET DISCUSSING
RHODEN'S CRIMINAL HISTORY.
BACK TO YOU.
FRANCESCA: THANK YOU.
HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND OTHER
LOVED ONES OF THE VICTIMS TODAY
COMES WITH A SIGH OF RELIEF.
PICKING UP OUR TEAM COVERAGE
FROM HERE AND JOINING US FROM
THE COBB COUNTY COUNTRY CLUB
WHERE THIS ALL TOOK PLACE.
WHAT CAN YOU TELL US?
>> JENNIFER, YOU KNOW, IT IS THE
SECOND DAY THAT THE COUNTRY CLUB
HAS BEEN REOPENED SINCE THE
INCIDENT AND PEOPLE WHO WORK
HERE TOWN ME AT THE TEMPLE RIGHT
BEHIND ME WHERE HE WAS SHOT AND
KILLED WILL REMAIN CLOSED
INDEFINITELY AND THEY TELL ME
THIS IS ALL AS THEY CONTINUE TO
MOURN AND ALSO TODAY, JUST A
LITTLE BIT OF A SIGH OF RELIEF.
>> IT WAS DEFINITELY LIKE A
WEIGHT HAD BEEN LIFTED OFF OF
ME.
ME.
ME. PAOLO: FOR CORY EVANS, FINDING
OUT THAT THE SUSPECTS TIED TO
THE TRIPLE HOMICIDE WAS ARRESTED
WITH A FULL CIRCLE MOMENT.
>> I WAS STANDING IN THE SAME
SPOT WHERE I HEARD THE SHOTS
HAPPEN AND I WAS ABLE TO FIND
OUT THAT THEY CAPTURED THE GUY
IN THE SAME SPOT.
PAOLO: HE HAPPENED TO BE GIVING
LESSONS ABOUT 400 YARDS AWAY
WHEN HE HEARD THE GUNSHOTS.
TODAY, HE FEELS KIND OF
PRESSURE.
PRESSURE.
PRESSURE. >> I OBVIOUSLY FELT DIFFERENT
BEING HERE, THE FIRST COUPLE
VISITS AFTER.
VISITS AFTER. THE IMAGE IS STILL PRETTY VIVID
IN MY MIND, HOW I SAW HIM.
FOR ME, FINDING OUT THAT THEY
WERE CAUGHT WAS HUGE FOR ME, BUT
FOR THE FAMILY, OBVIOUSLY,
UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S NOT GOING TO
FIX THE SITUATION.
PAOLO: EVANS SAID HE HOPES THIS
ARREST WILL BRING MORE ANSWERS
TO THEIR QUESTIONS.
FOR NOW, THE COUNTRY CLUB SAYS
THIS IS A BIG ANSWERED PRAYER.
>> WE ARE ECSTATIC THAT THE
KILLER OF OUR BELOVED FRIEND HAS
BEEN ARRESTED.
BEEN ARRESTED. PAOLO: AT LAST CHECK, GENE
SILLER'S GOFUNDME PAGE SIX AT
$658,000.
$658,000.
$658,000. -- PAGE SITS AT $658,000.
WE WILL LET YOU KNOW ONCE WE
KNOW MORE.
KNOW MORE. JENNIFER: THANK YOU.
AS FOR THOSE TWO OTHER MEN WHO
WERE KILLED DURING ALL OF THIS,
THE BODIES OF PAUL PIERCE AND --
PIERSON AND HENRY VALDEZ WERE
FOUND IN THE BACK OF A PICKUP
TRUCK.
TRUCK.
TRUCK. NO
TRUCK. NO RELATION TO THE COUNTRY CLUB.
TODAY'S ARREST IS ONE OF THE
FIRST STEPS IN THIS
INVESTIGATION AND WE ARE
COMMITTED TO FOLLOWING THROUGH
FOR YOU.
FOR YOU.
FOR YOU. STAY