A Georgia cop already arrested in connection to a teen girl’s death is now accused of kidnapping her after she left a friend’s apartment, killing her and ditching her naked body in the woods.
Authorities believe the slain girl, 16-year-old Susana Morales, was killed by Miles Bryant last summer while he was still a police officer in the Atlanta suburb of Doraville.
Morales disappeared on July 26 without a trace as she walked home from a nearby friend’s apartment at around 10 p.m. Her family reported her missing the following morning, but cops initially deemed her a runaway, as there was no indication of foul play. “We have reached the threshold to where these charges have been upgraded to felony murder and kidnapping,” Gwinnett Police Chief J.D. McClure said Wednesday. “We have a very solid case and we're very confident.”
McClure said detectives are still probing how Morales died and whether she and Bryant had contact with each other in the past.
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