A 26-year-old U.S. citizen of Nigerian descent, Olaolukitan Adon Abel, has been taken into custody following a deadly shooting spree that claimed the lives of two women and left a man in critical condition across multiple locations in DeKalb County and Brookhaven, Georgia.
The attacks, which investigators believe were random, unfolded across three separate sites on Monday — a Checkers restaurant on Wesley Chapel Road in DeKalb County, a Kroger supermarket at Cherokee Plaza in Brookhaven, and along Battle Forest Drive in DeKalb County.
Abel now faces two counts of murder, aggravated assault, and weapons possession charges. During a court appearance on Tuesday, a DeKalb magistrate judge transferred the case to superior court after Abel’s defense counsel waived a formal reading of the warrants.
Investigators traced Abel to the attacks using rental vehicle data, ultimately apprehending him in Troup County. No motive has been established, and authorities say evidence processing is still ongoing.
“Our detectives are still going through evidence and still processing everything that we have so far,” a police official said, adding that the community faces no ongoing threat as the suspect is in custody.
This is not Abel’s first brush with the law. Brookhaven police confirmed he was previously convicted of a felony in California in 2024. He was also arrested by Savannah police last year and subsequently pleaded guilty to four misdemeanor counts of sexual battery, receiving 48 months of probation, a four-year ban from Savannah, and a court-ordered psychosexual evaluation.
The date of Abel’s next superior court appearance has not yet been announced.