Douglassville Man Indicted in Colbert Murder

A Stephens County grand jury has indicted the person arrested in April in the death of Tomas Colbert.

The grand jury issued a true bill of indictment on Thursday against Marqkeela Lawain Hill of Douglasville, Georgia on multiple counts in connection to Colbert’s death.

Hill is indicted on one count of malice murder for allegedly shooting the 21-year-old Colbert at a Falls Road apartment in the early morning hours of February 7.

Colbert died later at Greenville Memorial Hospital as a result of several gunshot wounds to his body.

Grand jurors also indicted Hill on one count of Aggravated Assault for firing the .223 caliber rifle into the apartment Colbert was in and one count of Possession of a Firearm of a Convicted Felon.

Because Hill was indicted on those two charges, he was also indicted on two counts of felony murder in connection to Colbert’s death.

Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office arrested Hill in April in Douglasville.

Toccoa Police have not yet commented on a motive for the shooting.