DA’s office seeks death penalty against Jeffrey Peacock
MOULTRIE — A Moultrie man accused of fatally shooting five people and then setting their house on fire will face the death penalty if convicted.
Southern Judicial Circuit District Attorney Brad Shealy’s office announced on Friday morning its intention to file a capital murder case against Jeffrey Alan Peacock. A Colquitt County grand jury indicted Peacock in March on an arson charge, five counts of malice murder and five corresponding counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and three counts of aggravated cruelty to dogs.
He is accused of shooting five residents in the head at their 505 Rossman Dairy Road residence, a few miles west of Moultrie, on May 15, 2016, and then setting fire to the wood-frame house.
Inside the heavily damaged building police found the bodies of Jonathan Garrett Edwards, Ramsey Jones Pidcock and Aaron Reid Williams, all 21; 20-year-old Alicia Brooke Norman; and Jordan Shane Croft, 22. Peacock was 24 at the time.
Peacock, who was granted a $1 million bond, is being held at Colquitt County Jail.