ATLANTA — A fugitive wanted by the FBI and Atlanta for a pair of separate homicides earlier this year has been taken into custody.
Investigators previously told Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Mark Winne exclusively that Corey Comer is wanted for killing 37-year-old Douglas Banks outside a library on Cleveland Ave. on May 6 and 17-year-old Kendarius Davis on Nov. 17 at an apartment complex on Mount Zion Rd. SE.
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Atlanta police say Comer, 20, was arrested on Friday. He is currently being held in the Fulton County Jail on charges of murder, aggravated assault and more.
APD says Comer had been on their Most Wanted list since last month.
They did not comment on where Comer was found.
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Channel 2′s Michael Seiden spoke to the grieving mother of a man fatally wounded in May who said she is relieved and grateful that the man accused of killing her son is off the streets and facing charges. She told Seiden about the moment she learned about Corey Comer’s arrest.
“All I could do was thank God because I want my son to have justice,” said Carolyn Banks. “He was a very loving and kind man and he didn’t have ill feelings for nobody.”
Banks said that her son and his fiancé were the proud parents of five children.
“He worked hard for his kids,” she added. “You know he would do anything.”
Detectives say that Comer used what’s known as a “Glock Switch” in Banks’ murder to turn his handgun into a fully-automatic weapon, which the FBI says can shoot about 20 rounds in a second.
“They’re extremely dangerous,” FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge Sean Burke said. “These weapons are very hard to shoot when they become converted to fully automatic. That has the strong propensity to have innocent victims be hit on top of the intended target.”
The FBI Atlanta says that between 2012 and 2021, there was a 570% increase in switches being found at crime scenes nationally. They added that they see them at nearly every metro Atlanta search warrant they serve involving gangs or violent crimes.
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