MOULTRIE — A mass shooting at a residence outside Moultrie Sunday apparently also claimed the lives of three dogs that were found dead at the scene. That revelation was among the few new details released on Friday during a news conference held at the Colquitt County Courthouse Annex. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation also released a description and photos of suspect Jeffrey Alan Peacock’s truck and is asking anyone who saw it from midnight Saturday night until 8:30 a.m. Sunday to get in contact with law enforcement.

Jamy Steinberg, special agent in charge of the agency’s Thomasville office, said that forensic work at the 505 Rossman Dairy Road site could be wrapped up this week. 

He told reporters that the agency is not releasing information about where the bodies were found in the house or whether any weapons have been recovered.

Investigators were suspicious from the outset at having five adults die in a fire without anyone escaping, Steinberg said, and it wasn’t long before  autopsies confirmed that suspicion was warranted.

Killed were Alicia Brooke Norman, 20; Jonathan Garrett Edwards, Ramsey Jones Pidcock, and Aaron Reid Williams, all 21; and 22-year-old Jordan Shane Croft.

The agency said in a Thursday afternoon news release that none had smoke in their lungs and that preliminary autopsy results indicated they all had been shot with a firearm.

Two of the dogs found dead at the residence were inside and one was outside, Steinberg said. Investigators are awaiting necropsy results on the dead animals to determine the cause of death. Those results will be released to the media once they are available.

He said that he did not have information about a motive at the time and did not elaborate on how Peacock became a suspect.

“Wednesday, after Jeffrey Alan Peacock came up to the sheriff’s office at our request, he was taken into custody,” he said. “He has since been charged with the murder of five individuals as well as arson.”

Police booked Peacock on Thursday into Colquitt County Jail on the arson charge and five counts of felony murder. Felony murder is a murder committed while in the act of committing another felony.

The investigation brought together a tremendous amount of personnel, equipment and support — from the state Fire Marshals Office, three GBI offices in surrounding districts, Moultrie and Colquitt County Volunteer Fire Department personnel and from the Thomas County Sheriff’s Office. The group has worked days in sweltering heat in evidence suits painstakingly sifting through material. 

Officers made daily runs to GBI laboratories all over the state to deliver evidence for testing, he said.

“It’s been a tough week,” Steinberg said. “There has been a lot of work put into this effort, and a lot more work to be done. We’ve had witnesses call in, we’ve had friends call in information.”

Steinberg asked anyone who saw Peacock’s truck, a green 1995 Chevrolet C1500 extended cab on Sunday morning, or has any other information, to contact the GBI at (229) 225-4090, or the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office at (229) 616-7460.

Colquitt County Sheriff Al Whittington said that the response has been “great.”

“Everybody’s been great, with care and assistance in this case,” Whittington said.