Fort
Walton Beach, FL – The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force along
with Okaloosa County Deputies captured Coty Keith Holmes at a motel in Fort
Walton Beach earlier today. The Task Force, working with information provided
by the U.S. Marshals Smokey Mountain Fugitive Task Force from Chattanooga, TN,
determined that Coty was in the Fort Walton Beach area last night. Early this
morning, task force members pinned down Holmes’ and that he was about to check
out of the motel that sits at the corners of Miracle Strip and Beal Parkways.
The
25 year-old Holmes, considered a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) Top
Ten Wanted Fugitive, is wanted by the and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office
for his alleged involvement in beating a man to death with a ball-peen hammer
and who was found in a cornfield in Cowan, Tennessee in March. Holmes is the
third suspect arrested in connection with this murder and is being charged with
First Degree Homicide and Felony Murder. There is still one suspect at large,
David Gordan Jenkins who is also being sought on the same charges.
Anyone
with information of the whereabouts of Jenkins is asked to call 1-800-TBI-FIND
or the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office at (931) 962-0623 or your local law
enforcement agency.
Coty
was transported to Okaloosa County Jail and booked in as a fugitive from
justice.
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