SANDY SPRINGS, GA — Police are asking for the public’s help to find the eighth and final suspect in a violent Sandy Springs home invasion from earlier this month.
Sandy Springs Police are offering as much as $10,000, and possibly even more, for information leading to the arrest of 23-year-old Jermaine Caldwell of Atlanta.
A crew of masked men forced their way into a home on Northside Drive just after 10 p.m. on Oct. 1, police said, and held a mother and her young daughter at gunpoint demanding the valuables in the house.
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While some of the group searched the home, police said they threatened to kill their terrified hostages if they didn’t comply with their demands.
The masked men took a number of personal belongings, two cars and the victim’s phones and said they would kill the mother if she called police. Then they left, leaving the mother and her child shaken but unharmed, according to police reports.
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Investigators located the abandoned cars several hours later and arrested the first suspect, Robert Gunter of Atlanta, the same night, according to jail records.
Gunter, 21, is charged with home invasion, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and theft by taking.
Norman Thompson, 21 of Conyers, 21-year-old Darryl Johnson of Atlanta, Union City resident Contavious Howard, 24, and Atlanta 24-year-old Jude Morgan — each arrested in that order — face the same charges as Gunter.
Montavious Goodwin, a 22-year-old from Union City, and 22-year-old Azhanee Scott from Atlanta, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit the crimes the other suspects are accused of, police said.
Caldwell, who remains on the run from police, faces conspiracy charges for home invasion, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and theft by taking.
Police ask that anyone with information about this case or on Caldwell’s whereabouts contact Sandy Springs Police Detective M. Burson at 770=551-2570 or via email at mburson@sandyspringsga.gov.
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