Teen pleads guilty to murder, armed robbery of Dodge County couple
DODGE COUNTY, Ga. -- A 19-year-old pleaded guilty to murder and armed robbery in Dodge County Superior Court Tuesday in the 2018 murders of an elderly couple.
Defendant Gary Pennamon pleaded guilty to two counts of malice murder and one count of armed robbery. He's been sentenced to three concurrent life sentences with the possibility of parole.
In April 2018, authorities say four Dodge County teenagers murdered Wendell Everett and Jain Williams, who lived just outside of Chester. A neighbor hadn't seen the couple for several days and asked the Dodge County Sheriff's Office to conduct a welfare check on them.
When deputies went into the home, they found the couple dead from gunshot wounds.
Four Dodge County teens were subsequently arrested for the murders. At the time of the crimes, two of the suspects were 16-years-old, one -- Gary Pennamon -- was 17-years-old, and the fourth was then-19-year-old Kojak Thomas, Jr.
The trials for now-18-year-old Martez Samuel Gordon, 18-year-old Demarcus Deshawn Blash, and 21-year-old Thomas are set for March.
Gordon, Blash, and Thomas have previously been indicted on 14 counts:
- Two counts malice murder
- Two counts felony murder
- One count home invasion
- Two counts aggravated assault
- Two counts armed robbery
- One count burglary in the first degree
- One count possession of a firearm while committing a felony
- Three counts theft by taking
Additionally, 21-year-old Alijah Shamir Pennamon, who was 19-years-old at the time of the murders, was indicted for theft of stolen property in connection to the incident.
All of the defendants are from Dodge County.
