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John Sumpter
Pamela Sumpter
John "Jon" & Pamela "Faye" Sumpter
John "Jon" & Pamela "Faye" Sumpter
In the early morning hours of July 15, 1990, officers with the DeKalb County Police Department (DKPD) responded to a report of a person stabbed at an apartment complex on Tree Hills Parkway in Stone Mountain. When officers arrived, Pamela Sumpter, 43, was seated on the floor of her neighbor’s apartment. She was visibly injured and said she had been raped and stabbed. She told officers her brother, John Sumpter, 46, had been stabbed as well and was possibly deceased in their apartment next door. John was found deceased. Police interviewed Ms. Sumpter at the hospital. She provided details about her rape and the murder of her brother. A rape kit was also collected. On August 5, 1990, Pamela Sumpter succumbed to her injuries in the hospital.
In 2024, Kenneth Perry, 55, of Loganville was arrested after DNA analysis linked him to the case.
On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, jurors found Defendant Perry, now 56, guilty on two counts of Malice Murder, two counts of Felony Murder, Rape, four counts of Aggravated Assault, two counts of Aggravated Battery, two counts of Possession of a Knife During the Commission of a Felony, and Theft by Taking, all in connection with the attack on the Sumpters.
DeKalb County Superior Court Chief Judge Shondeana C. Morris, who presided over Perry's trial, sentenced him to serve 3 consecutive life sentences, plus 100 years in custody.
Terrance Watkins
Terrance Watkins
Terrance Watkins
On April 4, 2008, Terrance Watkins, 23, was killed inside his apartment on Bouldercrest Lane in the Gresham Park neighborhood of Atlanta (DeKalb County). According to the investigation, someone broke into Watkins’s apartment in the overnight hours while he was sleeping. Watkins and the intruder exchanged gunfire, and he was hit, resulting in his death. The DeKalb County Police Department (DKPD) recovered Watkins’s gun from the scene and kept it as evidence.
A few minutes later, Ira Sigler, who was 32 at the time, was dropped off at a gas station off I-285 in the City of Atlanta with a gunshot wound. Sigler told responding paramedics that he had been shot during a drug deal at an apartment complex off Moreland Avenue. EMS recovered the projectile from Sigler’s wound and turned it over to the Atlanta Police Department (APD).
In 2024, the Cold Case Team at the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office reviewed the case file. DA Investigators requested the gun from DKPD and the bullet from APD and submitted them to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) for ballistics testing. GBI analysis revealed the projectile recovered from Sigler matched Watkins’s handgun.
The DA’s Office secured a warrant for Sigler’s arrest and on January 16, 2025, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Unit took him into custody.
Defendant Sigler, now 49 years old, awaits his day in court.
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