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DeMarcus Little, who was arrested earlier this week after his girlfriendAnitra Gunngoing missing on Valentine’s Dayand wasfound deadfour days later, has now been charged with her murder.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigationannouncedon Friday that it had charged Little with one count of malice murder.
On Thursday, the GBI said that Gunn’s death had been ruled a homicide, but her official cause of death was pending the toxicology results.
At Little’s bond hearing, the judge also ordered specific conditions to accompany his high bond because he was considered a flight risk. The extra conditions included wearing an ankle monitor, a 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew, and that if he returns to work, he must not leave the premises, according to the outlet.
Little’s father Andre maintained his son’s innocence to reporters after his bond hearing.
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Gunn was reported missing after her friends and family didn’t hear from her on Friday afternoon, saying that in was uncharacteristic of the college student to not respond to texts and calls.
“She never texted them back, didn’t call them back. That’s when we knew something isdefinitely out of whack,” Gunn’s father Christopher previously told 13WMAZ.
Gunn was last seen at Little’s aunt’s house on Friday, Peach County investigators previously said, PEOPLE previously reported. Investigators didn’t find anything out of place during a welfare check was conducted at Anitra’s apartment later that same day.
Gunn’s car was discovered on Saturday in a neighbor’s yard, but its bumper was missing, a detail that Peach County Sheriff Terry Deese said investigators thought was “very important,” according to 13WMAZ.
source: people.com
