LaSmockie Fountain, a Macon woman, was found dead in her yard on Saturday. Then Monday, a person of interest in that case, was also discovered dead.
According to the coroner, that man is Derrick Booze, a victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. We've since learned that Booze had four active warrants for his arrest.
Today, Claire Davis obtained copies of those warrants and found out more about Booze's past from Fountain's family.
Stephanie Burton, says Derrick Booze dated her daughter, LaSmockie Fountain, for several years. But she told us the relationship was violent. She thinks the Sheriff's office didn't do enough to put Booze behind bars, before it was too late.
"I don't think they was doing it like they should," Burton said. "And also on top of that this man got all these warrants out on him, you know he just shot in my mom house a week ago at my daughter. You know and then, they should have gotten him."
Fountain was shot and killed at her home in Macon on Saturday, and Bibb County Sheriff David Davis says Booze is the only suspect.
Burton says she saw this coming.
"I knew he would do something like that because ... if he couldn't have her, no one could have her. (He was) very obsessed with her," she said.
There were four warrants out for Booze's arrest, and those warrants say he went after Fountain with a gun at least twice, earlier this month. On May 5, he allegedly pointed a weapon at Fountain inside her home and threatened to kill her and himself. A week later, warrants say, Booze invaded her home, assaulted Fountain and fired his gun in her direction.
But Sheriff Davis says his deputies used the resources they had available, searching for Booze for two weeks before Fountain was killed.
"We were on his heels for two weeks all the way up to when we felt that he's probably the person responsible for the murder of Miss Fountain," Davis said. "Even after that when he was listed as a person of interest, he came into contact with many people who we feel probably could have called us and let us know where he might be all the way up until the time that he took his own life."
In the end, the Sheriff says the situation ended with a tragedy for both families.
In one of the previous cases, he says, Fountain told deputies she didn't want anyone to call law enforcement because she still loved him. Davis says Fountain was in contact with Booze up until the night she was killed.
This was the first time he was officially referred to as a suspect in her death, rather than just a person of interest and the sheriff says there are no other suspects.
