Police: Woman wanted in 2022 Akron homicide found dead in scrapyard
AKRON, Ohio (WOIO) - Akron police officials on Friday confirmed detectives found the woman wanted in connection to a fatal shooting in 2022 dead in a scrapyard.
Officials confirmed police found the body of 33-year-old Suzanne Thomas dumped in the 3700 block of Georgetown Road NE in Canton Township on April 26.
The Stark County Sheriff’s Office positively identified the body after a passerby found her in an abandoned lot on Wednesday.
Akron Police Lt. Michael Miller previously said officers found Hall fatally shot in the chest inside a home in the 1300 block of Brandon Avenue on Nov. 30, 2022.
Miller said officers found the victim with an apparent gunshot wound to the chest and pronounced him dead at the scene.
Officials confirmed police arrested the actual shooter, Darrell Lee Antwan Buchanan, on Dec. 13, 2022.
Police confirmed Buchanan remains in the Summit County Jail.
Officials have not identified the cause of Thomas’s death.
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