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Georgia man was arrested for ashooting that left three people dead at a shooting range. - Jacob Christian Muse was taken into custody and charged with three counts of malice murder.
A 21-year-old Georgia man was arrested on Friday and charged in connection to the shooting of a gun range owner and two others, according to officials and jail records.
Jacob Christian Muse is charged with three counts of malice murder for the shooting that left three people dead at Lock Stock & Barrel Shooting Range in Grantville, Georgia, earlier this month, on April 8, per a press release from the local police department, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
"Muse has been booked into the Coweta County Jail, and this joint investigation remains active and ongoing," the statement said.
The range is located in rural Coweta County, about 50 miles southeast of Atlanta.
—GA Bureau of Investigation (@GBI_GA) April 16, 2022
Grantville police previously said the suspect took "approximately 40 weapons and the camera DVR" from the family business. The victims were identified as the owner of the range, 75-year-old Thomas Hawk, his wife Evelyn, and their grandson, Luke.
"I've been here eight years and we've never had anything like this," Whitlock said. "Right now, I'm just speechless," Grantville police chief Steve Whitlock told the outlet last week. "Right now, I'm just speechless. I have a hard time talking about it because they were friends of ours. I've known them for a long time."