Missing teen was killed, 2 in custody
Missing teen Sam Poss was killed, Perry police Chief Steve Lynn said at a Thursday news conference.
Two people are in custody: Dakota White, 17, of Perry, and Brandon Warren, 18, of Houston County. They are charged with murder, police said.
Poss’ body was found in the woods in the Lake Joy area Wednesday night. Police were tight lipped about the evidence and motive in the case and did not say how Poss was killed.
Poss, 18, a 2016 Perry High School graduate with aspirations of joining the U.S. Navy, was last seen alive about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, his family said.
He was thought to be headed home barefoot from a friend’s house on Tucker Road to his home on Frank Satterfield Road along a half-mile wooded trail. He never arrived home.
His father previously identified the friend as White. Poss reportedly had been at White’s house to fix his computer, declined a ride home from him and left to walk home.
White was arrested at his Tucker Road late Wednesday night, and authorities found the body afterward. The wooded area where the body was found in unincorporated Houston County is not near the heavily wooded area near Poss’ home that authorities combed over three days.
Authorities conducted an extensive search of the 200-acre wooded area near where Poss went missing utilizing a specialized team of firefighters trained in search and rescue, blood hounds, cadaver dogs, and a Georgia State Patrol helicopter.
Becky Purser: 478-256-9559, @BecPurser
This story was originally published October 20, 2016 at 10:13 AM with the headline "Missing teen was killed, 2 in custody."