ROSWELL, GA– Police say two teenagers suffered severe head trauma in what investigators are calling a double homicide after their bodies were discovered behind a grocery store in the Atlanta suburb of Roswell.
Roswell police say a delivery driver made the discovery shortly before 6 a.m. Monday behind the Publix supermarket in the King Plaza shopping center.
Police identified the teenagers later Monday as 17-year-old Natalie Henderson of Roswell and 17-year-old Carter Davis of Woodstock.
Both attended local high schools, where administrators plan to provide counselors and other resources for students.
Natalie attended Roswell High while Carter went to River Ridge High.
“Just thinking of the families and the parents And our community. We’re a tight knit community,” said one mom who was with her young daughter.
Police believe the teens arrived at the location between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. early Monday morning.
The business owner says he drove around the back of the store about thirty minutes before the bodies were found, but he says he didn’t see anything out of the ordinary.
Lisa Hawkins works at a shop in the plaza where the bodies were found.
” It’s just too close to home,” Hawkins said. She says only delivery drivers come to the back of the plaza.
She’ll be extra careful from now on.
“I’m going to be very cautious when I get out every morning when its dark,” Hawkins said.
The store is about 25 miles north of downtown Atlanta, on the northwest side of Roswell, which is in Fulton County.
Police are working with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Sandy Springs police crime scene investigators to locate witnesses and other evidence.— CNN and The Associated Press contributed to this report
