UWG student killed near Douglasville store; suspect identified

Name: Douglas County deputies arrest suspect in murder of 19-year-old UWG student
Uploaded: 2026-02-09T11:50:58-05:00
Description: The Douglas County Sheriff's Office has made an arrest in the shooting death of 19-year-old Lyric Farley. The University of West Georgia student and Carrollton High School graduate was found with multiple gunshot wounds on Kings Highway on Saturday afternoon. During a press conference Monday, investigators confirmed they identified and arrested a suspect following an overnight investigation.

Douglas County deputies arrest suspect in murder of 19-year-old UWG student

The Douglas County Sheriff's Office has made an arrest in the shooting death of 19-year-old Lyric Farley. The University of West Georgia student and Carrollton High School graduate was found with multiple gunshot wounds on Kings Highway on Saturday afternoon. During a press conference Monday, investigators confirmed they identified and arrested a suspect following an overnight investigation.

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ga. - Deputies with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office have arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old University of West Georgia student over the weekend.

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What we know:

Investigators said the shooting happened shortly after 1 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot behind a Dollar General off Central Church Road in the Kings Corner area of Douglasville. Deputies responding to a 911 call reporting shots fired found a woman inside a vehicle, where she was pronounced dead at the scene.

The victim was identified as Lyric Latrice Farley, 19, of Carrollton. Authorities said evidence, witness statements and surveillance video indicated Farley and the suspect knew each other and had a prior personal relationship. Investigators believe the two met following a disagreement and that Farley was fatally shot during that meeting.

Deputies identified the suspect as David Mark Anthony Powell, 20, of Douglasville. He was taken into custody without incident around 1:30 a.m. Sunday after deputies stopped a vehicle on Interstate 20 near Highway 5. Powell has been charged with murder and aggravated assault and is scheduled to appear before a judge in Douglas County Superior Court later today.