Crime & Safety
Murder Suspect On the Run For 24 Years Nabbed in Alpharetta
Rodney Vernon Cooke, 46, was arrested early Wednesday morning by the U.S. Marshals Service Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force

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A man wanted on charges he killed his roommate nearly 25 years ago in North Carolina was arrested earlier this week in Alpharetta.
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The U.S. Marshals Service Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force on Aug. 26 arrested Rodney Vernon Cooke, who is suspected of killing his roommate on Aug. 2, 1991, in Wilson, North Carolina.
The investigation to locate Cooke, 46, also known as Gary Reid and Gary Clark, received new life recently when an individual visited the Wilson Police Department and said they had seen Cooke in South Carolina, the U.S. Marshals said in its press release.
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The U.S. Marshals Service Eastern District of North Carolina Violent Fugitive Task Force launched a search for Cooke and soon discovered that he was living in Georgia under the alias Gary Reid, and that he allegedly accumulated a criminal history in several states under this identity.
This new information was passed along to the Marshals Service in Atlanta, who quickly followed up and located Cooke early Wednesday morning.
Cooke is currently in the Fulton County Jail awaiting extradition to North Carolina.
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