The Decatur Police along with the GBI spent Monday afternoon investigation the murder of a five-year-old boy on East Lake Drive in Metro Atlanta.
Police visited the home of 41-year-old Gary DeToma, Sr. early Monday on a report that he hadn’t returned his two children to their mother after a weekend visit. Nobody answered the door when they knocked so the police left.
Later in the day a co-worker of DeToma paid a visit to the home, wondering why he hadn’t shown up for work on Monday. He also called police. Apparently that was finally enough for them and they entered the home. Officers found DeToma and both children, the five-year-old lying dead on the bed. What sucks (aside from the fact that a child has been brutally murdered) is that law enforcement had no legal grounds to enter the home. This may come into play later when it goes to trial.
An autopsy is scheduled for today and while police won’t release a cause of death at the current time they are saying that he was most likely suffocated and that DeToma may have tried to kill his younger son as well.
DeToma has been lodged without bond (until a hearing) on charges of Murder and Aggravated Assault. He is currently in the Dekalb County Jail. They have not yet posted a mug shot but I’ll get one online as soon as they do.
According to Gary’s MySpace he is originally from the Bronx.
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