Two Georgia women have been arrested in connection with the death of a Gwinnett County man last seen when he left his Loganville home for a date with someone he met online.
Surveillance video showed 21-year-old Leondre Flynt leaving home on the morning of July 29 with a change of clothes and bag over his shoulder. His GMC Canyon truck was later tracked to Detroit, Michigan, WSB reported, but it has not been found.
Destiny Stephens, 20, was arrested in October after she was seen on video getting out of Flynt’s vehicle at a Lowe’s near the Little 5 Points neighborhood, where she bought a handsaw and bolt cutters. Stephens has been charged with murder and concealing the death of another and was released on a $150,000 bond with the stipulation that she have no contact with Flynt’s family, WXIA reported.
The video also showed a second woman, identified as 21-year-old Audrey Zalky, in the vehicle. Zalky was arrested this week in Carroll County and is also being charged with murder and concealing the death of another.
Flynt’s family said they provided investigators with access to Flynt’s iCloud account and a phone and that they learned that he had been communicating with Zalky prior to leaving home on July 29, WSB said. Then he used his phone’s GPS to travel to an apartment complex in the toney Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta.
Then they learned of a “shots fired” call to the same apartment complex on the same day, in which a resident reported a bullet hole in their unit. When police contacted the resident of the unit across from the damaged one, identified as Ahmir Bobo, he told them that a woman was handling a gun inside his apartment when it went off.
Later that day, surveillance video showed a man moving large items on a furniture dolly from the direction of the apartment toward the elevators.
Investigators examining Stephens’ phone records found she was in the area of the apartment where the shots were fired at the time the calls was made and was in the area of the Lowe’s when she and Zalky were seen in Flynt’s truck.
Flynt’s truck was found via OnStar at a CVS drugstore in Detroit on July 31 — about a 20 minute drive from the address on Bobo’s Michigan ID card. Detroit police searched for the vehicle in the area but didn’t locate it.
More than two weeks later, maintenance workers at the Buckhead apartment complex said they found blood on the fourth floor. Police responded to the call and said there were dark, reddish stains on a railing overlooking the alley where dumpsters are stored as well as a blood trail that led into the parking garage and ended at one of the stalls.
A search warrant for Bobo’s apartment located the furniture dolly and an air mattress that looked like the one seen in the surveillance video. They also found evidence that someone had been bleeding in the apartment and two gun boxes.
After obtaining a search warrant for Zalky’s Instagram account, investigators contacted a friend who had been talking with her around the time Flynt went missing. The friend provided police with messages in which Zalky said she was attacked inside her apartment and that someone killed the attacker.
Police say they have not worked out the details on how Flynt was killed or who killed him, but they believe the two women and Bobo were all involved.
Bobo has not been located.
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[Featured image: Audrey Valky/Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, Destiny Stephens/Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, and Leondre Flynt/GoFundMe]
