On your yesterday afternoon homicide
investigators responded to six
paces W Terrace on a homicide.
I just asked that you just remember
that this is a a very active
investigation I'm going to bring up.
Lieutenant dear love our homicide commander.
He's going to kind of walk us through a
little bit and to introduce a significant
update and what we need the public's
assistance with so at this time.
Homicide commander Lieutenant Dearlove.
Thank you.
My name is Lieutenant Dearlove,
homicide commander for the
Atlanta Police Department.
As Chief Hampton stated,
we had a homicide investigation
that occurred at 6 paces W Terrace,
NW background on the case at about 5:30 PM.
Officers responded to location where
they spoke to involved parties
and they stated that student was
was deceased inside her garage.
Our decedents miss Eleanor Bulls,
she's 77 years old.
Currently as we continue with this
investigation which began last night,
the motive appears to be a
crime interrupted robbery.
Miss Boles was in possession of a
2021 Lexus RX350 as shown on the
screen here and we believe that the
individuals attempting to steal the vehicle,
Miss Boles,
may have encountered him and she was killed.
The vehicle was tracked and we're
investigative resource was put into it.
We've recovered that vehicle last night
and we're processing it as we speak.
What we're here today for is the
surveillance footage recovered
from this incident.
As you see here,
the person on that screen is a
person of interest that we believe
is involved may have significant
information in this investigation.
It's blackmail.
Black sweatshirt, black pants.
This footage was taken at around
11:30 to 12:30 PM AM excuse me.
We are seeking the public's
assistance and with with identifying.
This person of interest if anyone
has any information or any tips
or the identity of this person,
notify our Crime Stoppers at 404577 tips.
Currently,
the reward of this information
is going to be $10,000.
Yeah, that that is all on any questions.
Is this a shooting or
no? It appears that the victim
was stabbed multiple times.
Any other questions?
So this is just a person of interest.
I mean, in terms of a suspect though,
have you all identified a suspect
that you guys are looking for?
No. This is a very active
investigation right now.
We're still working different leads,
but we do believe this is a
person of interest for this case.
At this time, are you only looking for one
individual or is it possible that there
are others who believe may be involved?
As of as of right now,
we're looking for for this person.
We're we're still leaving the door
open for others involved as well.
As we said, we're still working this case.
As we develop more leads
and additional information,
we'll be sure to share with you. All
right. So what we will also add is
that it's important to note that
this video came from someone's home.
And so connect atlanta.org,
we're asking that people integrate and
businesses register their cameras.
But this is going to be
very important in this case.
So we're going to provide you all
with a handout so you can see
the images that are listed posted
here on the screen to Hampton.
Say about I know everyone likes to
know what what else can be done and
so she said that even with personal
cameras it can be fees can be
integrated to our connect Atlanta.
And that is helpful because again
we're able to view that real time
when we have an investigation with
residents is permission based.
And so again, this would have just been
extremely helpful a little bit earlier,
but again that's what we asked
citizens to do, but the citizen in
this case was very instrumental.
So again, as we ask your viewers
to pay close attention to this,
we're looking between the hours of
11:30 AM and 12:30 PM that we believe
that this horrendous incident occurred.
So any information about this vehicle
afterwards, we're asking people to call.
If you saw anyone in the car that I know,
the question was asked,
is this the only person?
Again, we don't know.
But right now what we do know is
that this individual right now is a
person of interest that we need help.
Define, so we can further investigation.
I would describe discovery again.
We have the son.
I came home to visit his mom for the
holidays and again, this is terrible.
I was here a couple of weeks ago,
so we talked about the holidays.
This is not a way that a family
should have to spend their holiday
season mourning and grieving a
death of a loved one.
And so again,
very tragic situation.
This happened around 11:30 twelve and then
she was found around 5:30. Is that yes.
So we we believe that we have narrowed
the incident between 11:30 and 12:30
and obviously it's a gated community,
not that that means anything,
but I mean does this person potentially
have any connections to this, you know?
Morris is is very early
on in the investigation.
The lead detective did not
leave until early this morning.
He'll be back in a couple of hours and
that's something that we have to look into.
So we have to figure out access
into the the development.
We will be checking into all that as
we do in every single investigation.
So we will leave no stones unturned to
to find resolution for this family.
So again very early on,
I know you have some great questions but.
Some things we just can't
answer because again,
we're just less than 24 hours in,
but this is what we want to focus on.
We believe that this will play a huge
development into this investigation.
And so that's why we want to focus on
right now is this person of interest?
And then again,
if any citizens or residents
in that community,
if they have any video between
the hours up to 12:30 PM,
we're asking them to reach
out to the homicide unit so
we can further investigation.
You said this. Did he get away in the car?
Yes. OK. Yes. So somebody they
see that car riding around that.
No, we have as the Lieutenant, dear love,
we've got the car yesterday evening.
So the car is in our possession.
But what we do ask if anyone saw
the car driving around in the
in the city surrounding areas to
give us a call who was in it?
That's going to further investigation.
Where it was located when you found
it again, at this point I would
say it was founded DeKalb County,
but again I just.
But we also know that it was
driven throughout the city.
So again we believe that it
it went to various locations.
So we're just asking anyone who saw
anyone in the vehicle to help us.
So that's as Lieutenant dear
love is found in the park,
the Crime Stoppers, the war has increased.
And so we want to make sure that
anyone with any information can
call Crime Stoppers and where
they will remain anonymous.
Thank you.
Cheap.
One hand is on now.
OK.
Alright so everybody, I am going to
provide you with the handout that
has two different images front and back.
I'll hold it up in case you
want me to get it to pre pro.
You come hold up another one.
I'm over there. Also handed out
in case you wanted to. She didn't look.