a écrit le 21 août 2012 à 4h36 Chamblee police announced Monday that they have arrested two men in connection with the shooting death of a third and said the three apparently were running a $40,000 scam.
One of the victim's alleged accomplices in the con was charged with murder, but Chamblee Police Chief R. Marc Johnson told Channel 2 Action News that the shooter was still at large Monday.
Phylos Pokem, 24, of Ellenwood has been arrested and charged with felony murder, providing false statements to police officers and forgery in connection with the death of his cohort, 35-year-old Yannick Medjo of Stone Mountain, police said.
"Anyone involved in a crime which actually results in the death of another can be charged with felony murder," Johnson explained in an email to the AJC.
Medjo's other accomplice, 25-year-old Armand Patrick Ngamou of DeKalb County, was arrested for probation violation and on outstanding warrants, police said.
Ngamou was wanted on Cobb County warrants for forgery and identity fraud stemming from a March 2010 check-writing incident, and for giving a false name to police during a stop in March 2011, according to Cobb Magistrate Court records. He also was wanted in Florida on unspecified charges, police said.
Pokem and Ngamou were being held without bond Monday evening in DeKalb County jail. They and Medjo were believed to be from Cameroon, in West Africa, police said.
The investigation began about 7 a.m. Saturday when Chamblee 911 received a call of a person shot outside the Mad Italian Restaurant at 2197 Savoy Drive, police said. Officers found Medjo with a gunshot wound to his right torso, lying in the parking lot. He was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Witnesses told investigators they heard a gunshot and saw a blue or green sport-utility vehicle, believed to be a Ford Explorer or Expedition, leaving the area.
Police determined that Medjo and Pokem had left the victim's vehicle parked outside the restaurant Friday night, traveled to Tennessee overnight in Pokem's white Mustang, and returned Saturday.
The men had just gotten out of Pokem's vehicle when an SUV pulled up.
"A confrontation of some sort then occurred with persons still unknown in the SUV," police said in a news release. "The passenger in the SUV was reportedly armed with a long gun. Pokem jumped back into his vehicle and fled the scene leaving Medjo behind."
As it fled, Pokem's Mustang collided with an extended-cab black pickup truck "involved with the crime," police said
One of the victim's alleged accomplices in the con was charged with murder, but Chamblee Police Chief R. Marc Johnson told Channel 2 Action News that the shooter was still at large Monday.
Phylos Pokem, 24, of Ellenwood has been arrested and charged with felony murder, providing false statements to police officers and forgery in connection with the death of his cohort, 35-year-old Yannick Medjo of Stone Mountain, police said.
"Anyone involved in a crime which actually results in the death of another can be charged with felony murder," Johnson explained in an email to the AJC.
Medjo's other accomplice, 25-year-old Armand Patrick Ngamou of DeKalb County, was arrested for probation violation and on outstanding warrants, police said.
Ngamou was wanted on Cobb County warrants for forgery and identity fraud stemming from a March 2010 check-writing incident, and for giving a false name to police during a stop in March 2011, according to Cobb Magistrate Court records. He also was wanted in Florida on unspecified charges, police said.
Pokem and Ngamou were being held without bond Monday evening in DeKalb County jail. They and Medjo were believed to be from Cameroon, in West Africa, police said.
The investigation began about 7 a.m. Saturday when Chamblee 911 received a call of a person shot outside the Mad Italian Restaurant at 2197 Savoy Drive, police said. Officers found Medjo with a gunshot wound to his right torso, lying in the parking lot. He was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Witnesses told investigators they heard a gunshot and saw a blue or green sport-utility vehicle, believed to be a Ford Explorer or Expedition, leaving the area.
Police determined that Medjo and Pokem had left the victim's vehicle parked outside the restaurant Friday night, traveled to Tennessee overnight in Pokem's white Mustang, and returned Saturday.
The men had just gotten out of Pokem's vehicle when an SUV pulled up.
"A confrontation of some sort then occurred with persons still unknown in the SUV," police said in a news release. "The passenger in the SUV was reportedly armed with a long gun. Pokem jumped back into his vehicle and fled the scene leaving Medjo behind."
As it fled, Pokem's Mustang collided with an extended-cab black pickup truck "involved with the crime," police said
