Charges filed in June 27 triple homicide in Albany

ALBANY — Albany police have filed charges in a triple homicide that took place June 27 at 2314 E. Alberson Drive.

Ticorey Frazier, 21, has been charged with three counts of murder in connection with the homicides, Phyllis Banks, a spokeswoman for the Albany Police Department, said Wednesday afternoon. Frazier was already in the Dougherty County Jail on a separate charge.

The bodies of Demarquis Williams, Tyquis Smith and Adrionna Holmes were found inside the Alberson Drive home. Each had been shot multiple times.

Banks said Frazier was picked up on June 28 and charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The Dougherty County Jail Report for that week showed him charged with two firearm possession counts and a count of obstructing police.

Banks said tip information helped develop Frazier as a suspect in the East Alberson homicides. Detectives brought him in Wednesday, questioned him and charged him with three counts of murder, she said.

The Alberson case remains active, and robbery/homicide detectives say they expect to make additional arrests, according to Banks.

According to the narrative of an APD incident report, at 4:26 a.m. on June 28, APD Patrolmen Gregory Charles and Nicholas Alexander responded to a call about a suspicious individual in the 2200 block of South Madison Street.

“We were informed that a black male, wearing all camouflage, was walking down South Madison Street with a rifle,” Charles wrote in the report. “We then located a black male, wearing all camo, standing on the east side of South Madison Street in the 2200 (block) with a black rifle at his feet.”

The officers got out of their car and told the man to stop and keep his hands visible. Instead, the report says, he grabbed the rifle and ran east. The officers pursued him into a field, where he ran south toward Wadkins Avenue. There, they lost sight of him.

The officers called for backup for cover, and Charles used the radio to set up a perimeter. The officers maintained their position until backup arrived.

The report said an officer identified as Patrolman Hart made contact with a black male clad in camo — and missing his left shoe — at South Madison Street and Willis Drive. No weapons were found on the individual, later identified in the report as Frazier, but three TulAmmo steel-cased 7.62×39 bullets were found in his pockets, the report says. Frazier was cuffed and placed in Hart’s cruiser.

“While searching the area for the rifle carried by the male,” Charles said, “I located a black and red shoe matching the single shoe that the male was still wearing in the field behind 2202 S. Madison St.”

The shoe was photographed and collected for evidence.

Charles said a black American Tactical AR-15 (.223 caliber) rifle with a NeStar green laser sight on its top rail was found on the south side of South Madison. After it was photographed, he said, the rifle was cleared of any ammo. There was no ammo magazine, but a 7.62×39 round was partially chambered. A single TulAmmo 7.62×39 bullet was recovered by Charles in the 2200 block of South Madison, and it was photographed and collected by a Patrolman Hamilton as evidence.

Charles said Frazier told Hart he was on parole and that a records check showed no active warrants. No record was found on the rifle.

The arrest came hours after police were called to the Alberson Drive residence on the evening of June 27, an unusually violent night when four shooting incidents were reported within a roughly 2 1/2-hour period. Three people were wounded in the other three shootings.

When officers arrived at 2314 E. Alberson shortly after 9 p.m., they found the bodies of Williams, 25; Smith, 23, and Holmes, 26. Dougherty Coroner Michael Fowler confirmed that all three had been shot and were pronounced dead at 10:22 p.m..

Also found inside the residence were two children who had not been harmed, a 1-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl.

There were no reports of any weapons found at the residence.