Boyfriend arrested on murder charge in killing of FVSU student Anitra Gunn

The boyfriend of Fort Valley State University student Anitra L. Gunn, who vanished on Valentine’s Day and was found slain Tuesday, was charged late Friday with one count of malice murder in her death.

Georgia Bureau of Investigation Assistant Special Agent Todd Crosby announced the charge at a press conference in the Peach County Courthouse.

Demarcus D. Little, 23, who was arraigned at midday Friday on charges of criminally damaging Gunn’s car and apartment in early February, was charged with murder later in the day after a judge set a $10,000 for him on the lesser charges.

Crosby said developments after the arraignment led to the murder charged being filed. He said there is still an active investigation and declined to give further details.

Little, who according to relatives is a sergeant in the Army stationed near Augusta, was jailed on the criminal damage charge Tuesday.

His arrest Tuesday came in the hours after Gunn’s body was found hidden beneath some tree limbs in a pine thicket east of U.S. 341 north of Fort Valley in rural Crawford County..

Earlier Friday afternoon, Little’s father said he expected to have his son freed on bond sometime later in the day.

Little was being held at the Peach Jail on the murder charges late Friday.

Brian Stewart, a Peach sheriff’s investigator, had been searching the miles of farmland north of Fort Valley where Gunn was last seen when he found her body lying in a pine thicket under some tree limbs, according to a Telegraph article.

Gunn, 23, was reported missing Feb. 15 after relatives couldn’t contact her. She was a senior agriculture major from Atlanta.