Rebeca Nicole Akins,Cindel Mae Rhoden Obituary, Death; – A 37-year-old man shot and killed his wife, then drove to his girlfriend’s apartment to kill her, Georgia police said.
Officers conducted a welfare check at the home of Rebeca Nicole Akins, 35, who was married to the man identified as Kevin Andrew Akins just before 6 p.m. May 23 after her co-workers reported not seeing or hearing from her in days, the Dalton Police Department said in a May 24 news release. After apartment staff helped officers get inside the unit, they found Rebeca Akins dead with a gunshot wound to her head, police said.
Then, detectives found Kevin Akins’ car in the parking lot of another apartment complex, police said. While they were waiting on a search warrant to go inside a unit, a man who identified himself as the father of Akins’ girlfriend — 33-year-old Cindel Mae Rhoden — used a key to get inside, police said. Rhoden’s father was checking on her after not hearing from her, according to police.
When he came out of the apartment, he told police he found Rhoden and a man dead, police said. According to investigators, Akins shot Rhoden dead before dying by suicide. The investigation is ongoing, police said. Dalton is about a 90-mile drive northwest from Atlanta.
