“I’m elated that an arrest has been made, but I’m not ready to make comments about the case right now,” Tina Robbins said Tuesday morning.
The Cobb County Police Department arrested Sean DGen Hall, 38, of Mableton, in Cherokee County on Monday on charges of aggravated assault, aggravated battery and murder in the death of Zach Gamble of Acworth, according to Cobb County Police.
Hall is also accused violating his probation stemming from a DUI in 2009. He is being held without bail in the Cobb County Jail
Gamble, 34, was found unconscious with severe head injuries in the parking lot at Concord Chase Apartments in Smyrna in the early morning hours of March 25. He remained unconscious at WellStar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta for two weeks before dying April 8.
Since that time, his mother has reached out to the community through Facebook and a petition website asking anyone with information to come forward so the family can figure out what happened to their loved one.
As of last week, both the Atlanta Crime Stoppers and Robbins were offering rewards totaling $30,000 for information about Gamble’s death.
Late Tuesday night, Cobb Police announced three more arrests in the case.
Tarell Winston Secrest, 36, of Marietta; Jason Scott Hill, 35, of Marietta; and Arthur Lynell Batchelor, 37, of Acworth, were arrested on charges of aggravated assault, aggravated battery and murder.
All three are being held at the Cobb County Jail without bail.
According to police, Gamble was at a friend’s birthday party at the apartment complex off Old Concord Road, and as the party ended, a group of people confronted him in the parking lot “over an undetermined issue.”
Sgt. Dana Pierce with Cobb Police declined to release any additional information regarding the case and would not say if more arrests are pending, who tipped police about the group of people or if Gamble knew Hall.
Mike Gerhard with the Cobb County Medical Examiners Officer said Gamble’s autopsy was completed within a day or two of his death, but said they are waiting on the results of a toxicology screen.
“If the doctor thinks toxicology had anything to do with his death, it could take another 60 to 90 days to get results,” he said.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Cobb Police at (770) 499-3945.
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I drive by it 3 to 4 times a week. They mow the grass and the mail box station is always clean. They even paint the trim every so often to freshen it up.
Here and there in a mile radius you will see an unkempt single family home or town home.
But it is dangerous, as evidenced by the murder.
When I drive by, I usually (of course not every time) see small groups of adults and young adults hanging out in the parking lot. They seem to have no purpose. I mean, why are you not inside your home? Is it because you don't want the others in your household to know what you're doing?
That's plausible denial.
6 years ago, Cobb County AND Smyrna turned a blind eye when the illegal alien crowd (including very dangerous drug cartels), moved in that area en mass, therefore, devaluing huge swathes of Cobb County. As some 'illegals' pack up and leave, due to the bad economy,.. what they have left in their wake, are neighborhoods, RUNDOWN, low income, & attractive to folks on section 8 vouchers.
All the folks sittin' around thinkin' everythings ok in their neighborhoods (because they cut the grass & pick up trash at the mailbox)-- YOU are exactly the reason your neighborhoods are falling apart.
When expect SO LITTLE, that's exactly what you'll get!!!
I was simply stating that the particular apartment complex is NOT run down, a fact that the poster seemed to be insinuating, since the article sas about the Crossings. If I misinterpreted that poster's comment I hereby apologize.
In fact I do agree with your assesment of the "laissez faire" attitude toward illegals in Cobb and Smyrna.
I and my fellow homeowners throughout Smyrna who DO indeed keep up our properties are not all "sittin thinkin everything's OK" and are, to the contrary, one of the few things holding the neighborhoods together.
For you to trash me/us just because you have an ax to grind with the mayor and/or anyone else in the area is not constructive in the least.
What's up w/ that?
Everyone sound asleep in city hall?
rip, zach. semper fi.
I think it's unfair to judge ANY of these men purely based on race.
On another note i hope the prossecution goes for the death penalty, if these guys are found guilty thats what they deserve.