InDecatur has found the mugshots of the 3 adults arrested in connection with the murder of Bernard Sims.

By their addresses, it looks like two of them lived in the Allen Wilson Terrace Apartments.

Nice work David.

Kathy tipped me off to this story yesterday, but I was without an online source. Rus provides it.

From the AJC…

Four arrests have been made in the death of a 48-year-old Decatur man found in downtown Decatur Saturday, police said.

Decatur Assistant Chief Mike Lee said police arrested three adults and a juvenile late Saturday and charged them with murder. The three older suspects are at DeKalb County jail. The fourth is in juvenile detention. Lee did not identify them.

Lee said that the man, whom he “tentatively identified” as Bernard Sims, pending confirmation by the DeKalb County Medical Examiner’s Office, died of blunt force trauma to the head. Lee said a passerby saw him Saturday morning in the 1400 block of Commerce Avenue [across from Allen Wilson Terrace] and notified police.

Yikes.

A 22 year-old schizophrenic, bipolar Decatur High dropout, accused of killing both his father and grandfather at 41 Village Court (off Commerce Road) in Decatur, was arrested in rural Lowndes County, Ala. yesterday. The AJC has details on the arrest of Miller Jordan III, who is accused of killing his grandfather, Miller Jordan Sr., and father, Miller Jordan Jr., in their Decatur home.

As one of the first murders in the city that I’ve encountered since starting this blog back in Sept 07, its particularly tragic. A family that had tried to live with their son’s past psychological problems and transgressions is murdered by him in the end. Though random acts of violence are generally “scarier” to the general population, this kind of domestic violence is nearly always more tragic.

UPDATE: The AJC now has details of Jordan’s arrest.  Here’s a snippet…”[Police Chief] Mitchell approached Jordan’s green Nissan Altima and noticed dried blood on his hands and clothes and the shoes missing from his feet on what was a chilly night.”

See also InDecatur for more details and news links.