Overview

• William Jerome Adams was convicted on August 1 of two counts of felony murder and two counts of aggravated assault and received two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
• He fatally shot his partner, 39-year-old Mary Lindsay, and her 15-year-old son, Atif Muhammad Jr., at their Flowery Branch home in March 2021.
• Prosecutors presented shell-casing evidence, testimony of a gun found in Lindsay’s bedroom, a photograph of an arm injury from Adams and bank records showing he stole $2,000.
• An eight-year-old sibling was found sleeping alone in the mother’s bedroom two days after the killings and was unaware of the crime until authorities arrived.
• Adams attempted to flee to Mexico under a false name without a passport and was arrested in Laredo, Texas, the day after the bodies were discovered.