Found Deceased GA - Leondre Flynt, 21, left to pick up a car part & hasn't been heard from since, 2018 maroon GMC Canyon, Gwinnett County, 29 Jul 2023 *arrest*

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"A 20-year-old woman who faces charges in connection to the death of 21-year-old Leondre Flynt was granted bond Tuesday, according to Fulton County Superior Court records.

A bond hearing was held for Destiny Stephens at 9:30 a.m. Records show Stephens was granted a $150,000 bond with the stipulation that she must not have contact with Flynt's family. In October, Stephens was previously taken into custody on murder and concealing a death charges, according to warrants obtained by 11Alive."
Unbelievable.
 
Leondre is believed to be deceased, and it is now a homicide investigation. Evidence was found while executing a search warrant at the Marquis at Buckhead Apartments in Atlanta. The family traced the location through phone records and found out that several people at the apartments had heard shots the night Leondre went missing. The family led police to the location. Atlanta police released the incident report to 11alive. The family believes that police has persons of interest, but no names have been released at this time.

This is a long article that is worth reading.


Terrible. Poor guy didn’t deserve that.
 
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Atlanta Police haven't released any information outside the incident report they released to 11Alive that only points to "evidence" collected at the apartment at Marquis at Buckhead and the circumstances surrounding his disappearance led them to believe Flynt had been killed.

While the family believes APD does have some people of interest, no suspects have been named in the case.

As for Flynt's GMC Canyon truck, Wilson said there was some miscommunication about it being found. He said the truck, which is a 2018 maroon pickup with temporary tag number P4689211 was pinged by OnStar in Detroit not long after he vanished. However, Wilson said police didn't actually find it. He said attempts to track it since have been unsuccessful.
Wilson is urging anyone with information on his cousin's whereabouts or what happened to him on July 29, to call police. You can also call Crime Stoppers at 404-577-TIPS(8477) or e-mail the anonymous information using the online form at www.crimestoppersatlanta.org.

The tip can result in a reward up to $2,000 to the individual who supplied the information needed to solve the case.
 
updated Dec 30, 2023 article


[…]

APD said that 21-year-old Audrey Zalky was taken into custody in Carroll County on Friday and has been charged with murder and concealing the death of another in connection to the death and disposal of 21-year-old Leondre Flynt.

[…]
 
Three suspects involved in the case have been identified as Audrey Zalky, Destiny Stephens, and Ahmir Bobo. Zalky was reportedly the online date he went to meet that day.


I'm trying to work out a timeline. Shots at 12:18pm... what time did he arrive? Was he killed pretty much on arrival? The motive seems to be theft by using a honey trap sort of set up but it seems sloppy, was this their first time doing it?
 
Apparently he was meeting a woman online!! Sounds like a setup to me

Video from Saturday morning shows Flynt leaving his Loganville home with a change of clothes and a bag around his shoulder. His family said he was to Buckhead for a date.

“He met up with some young lady off of the internet. And since then, nobody had been in contact with him,” Wilson said.

Detectives have now launched a missing person investigation. Police got a clue this week when his truck showed up in another state.

“OnStar found the car in Detroit, Michigan, but by the time the Detroit police got there, the vehicle was no longer in that location,” Wilson said.
 
Flynt’s truck was found via OnStar at a CVS drugstore in Detroit on July 31 — about a 20 minute drive from the address on Bobo’s Michigan ID card. Detroit police searched for the vehicle in the area but didn’t locate it.

More than two weeks later, maintenance workers at the Buckhead apartment complex said they found blood on the fourth floor. Police responded to the call and said there were dark, reddish stains on a railing overlooking the alley where dumpsters are stored as well as a blood trail that led into the parking garage and ended at one of the stalls.

A search warrant for Bobo’s apartment located the furniture dolly and an air mattress that looked like the one seen in the surveillance video. They also found evidence that someone had been bleeding in the apartment and two gun boxes.

After obtaining a search warrant for Zalky’s Instagram account, investigators contacted a friend who had been talking with her around the time Flynt went missing. The friend provided police with messages in which Zalky said she was attacked inside her apartment and that someone killed the attacker.

Police say they have not worked out the details on how Flynt was killed or who killed him, but they believe the two women and Bobo were all involved.

Bobo has not been located.
 
What an amazing smile. So sad that this was the outcome…may his memory be a blessing to his loved ones left here without him :(
Agreed -- seeing his smile, made me smile.
Just a good guy, working for a living, loving his family, 21 years old, doing his job. He was just getting started.
Prayers for his family who will never forget him.
Fly high, Leondre.
 
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JUL 19, 2024
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Police said they found ‘dark reddish stains’ on the railing’ near the unit and a ‘blood trail’ into the parking garage that “appeared to end at one of the parking stalls.”

Inside the unit, police said they prayed Luminol in the living room and kitchen area and found chemiluminescence, which indicates someone inside the unit had been bleeding.

[...]

Court records show Flynt’s truck was seen on surveillance video at a nearby Lowe’s store. Police said in the video, you see Zalky and Stephens get out of Flynt’s truck, go inside the store and buy a “hand saw” and “bolt cutters.”

Court records show police stated later that same evening, Ring doorbell camera captured footage of a male moving “bulk items” on a furniture dolly from the apartment Flynt was last known to be inside alive, towards the elevator. Nowhere in the court documents does it show Flynt seen walking out of the apartment.

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