A woman who been reported missing from Augusta was found shot to death in her boyfriend’s truck in DeKalb County, according to a police report released Wednesday.
And the person who killed Shekema Toran, a 36-year-old mother of three, may have attempted to cover up the crime, according to police.
“It appeared to be a body in the passenger seat with a TV on top of the body concealing the body from view,” an officer wrote in the incident report.
Toran’s body was found Aug. 4 in a 2004 Ford F-250, the truck her boyfriend was driving at the time of her disappearance on July 31. Authorities were called to investigate after the truck was located parked outside a grocery store on Wesley Chapel Road.
Georgia mother found dead in vehicle outside DeKalb grocery store
The doors were locked, so officers had to break a window to get inside. That’s when Toran’s body was found. She had been shot in the chest, according to the DeKalb medical examiner.
Toran and her boyfriend of two months, Barritz Martin, had been arguing and the woman’s mother asked him to leave her Augusta-area home July 31, according to the Missing People in America Facebook page , which compiles information on various cases. Martin later returned and picked up Toran.