A jury in Georgia convicted a 27-year-old man for murdering his rival’s grandmother while she slept in her bed, the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office said .
Tyree Jaron Simmons was found guilty of malice murder , three counts of felony murder, two counts of aggravated assault, first-degree criminal damage to property and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. He killed 64-year-old Christine Walker at a hotel in Snellville, which is about 30 miles northeast of Atlanta, on Feb. 22, 2022.
Walker was living at the extended-stay motel with her 17-year-old grandson. The grandson told police Simmons pointed a gun at him during an altercation earlier in the day. The grandson went to the bathroom around 4:30 a.m. when several rapid-fire gunshots entered the hotel room, prosecutors said.
Bullets missed the grandson but hit Walker, who was sleeping in a bed, in the head, according to prosecutors. Paramedics pronounced her dead on the scene.