20-year-old Georgia man charged with killing his mom and stepdad Peyton Moyer is

 

Peyton Valor Moyer is seen in a booking photo on Tuesday morning, Dec. 28, 2022, from the Oconee County Jail in Watkinsville, Ga. Moyer was charged with two counts of murder.

20-year-old Georgia man charged with killing his mom and stepdad

Peyton Moyer is suspected of killing his mom and stepfather at home in Watkinsville, Ga., according to authorities

By Edward Era Barbacena

Probably this is the 3rd incident of an offspring harming his parents involving a white man since Christmas. On December 25,  Dino Tomassetti shot his parents in Long island and Austin Alvarez is accused of killing both his father's girlfriend and his grandmother in California.

Now, in Georgia,  a 20-year-old white man was arrested for allegedly shooting dead his mother and stepfather at the family’s home early Tuesday, authorities said.

Peyton Moyer allegedly carried out the deadly attack while his two younger sisters, 16 and 4, were at their Watkinsville home before fleeing in one of the victim’s cars, Fox News reported.

The bodies of Moyer’s 41-year-old mom, Ashley Schultz, and his 54-year-old stepdad, Benjamin Smith, were found inside the home by responding deputies, Oconee County Sheriff James Hale told the outlet.

Moyer had fled the scene in one of the victims' cars by the time deputies arrived at the home, police stated. Athens-Clarke County Police captured and arrested him "after a short pursuit." 

Police later located the suspect and captured him after a short pursuit, the sheriff’s office said.

Moyer was hit with two murder charges and one count of cruelty to children, the report said.

Investigators have not released information on a possible motive.

Sheriff James Hale described the incident as "a terrible, terrible thing," and said police had "previous encounters" with Moyer before the shootings, per FOX 5. 

Arrest records obtained by the outlet show that Moyer was previously arrested in March and subsequently charged with criminal trespass family violence and violating a family violence order.