Olaolukitan Adon Abel aka Adon Olaolukitan was out on probation for sexual battery prior to Dekalb County shooting spree that left two women dead & homeless man critically wounded as authorities try to understand what led to the random unprovoked shootings.
A Georgia man accused of going on a random unprovoked shooting spree in Dekalb County which led to two females killed and a male critically wounded was out on probation.
Olaolukitan Adon Abel, 26, of Atlanta according to court records from last year in Chatham County, under the name of ‘Adon Olaolukitan‘ pleaded guilty to four misdemeanor counts of sexual battery for groping incidents reported by four different victims in Savannah on April 20, 2025.
Of note, he was given a suspended four-year jail sentence and put on probation. He was also banned from Savannah for four years and ordered to obtain a ‘psychosexual social evaluation’ as part of the sentence.
Dekalb County shooting spree in Georgia leaves 2 women dead, one man critically wounded in space of 7 hours
Following his arrest Monday afternoon authorities charged Adon Abel in connection with the Kroger shooting in which he shot and critically wounded a 49-year-old homeless man sleeping outside a Brookhaven shopping center. The Brookhaven police department in a release stated Adon Abel was booked on charges of aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
Only one of the two fatalities was identified, with authorities identifying 40-year-old Lauren Bullis of Decatur as one of two women slain at the hands of Adon Abel as she went for her usual normal daily morning dog walk.
A witness, Tiffany Williams, a local neighbor told 11Alive that they heard six or seven gunshots. She then saw Bullis lying at the end of her driveway and the suspect standing over her before fleeing the scene. Along with multiple gunshot wounds, Bullis was also stabbed.
Brookhaven community’s private license plate reader credited for shooter’s arrest
That incident happened just hours after the first two indiscriminate shootings just on 6:50 a.m in the morning. The other fatal attack occurred earlier that morning just on 12.50 a.m outside a Checkers restaurant in unincorporated Decatur. DeKalb County police said that a woman was shot to death outside a Checkers restaurant on Wesley Chapel Road.
Less than 40 minutes later the gunman would strike again, when at approximately at 1.30 a.m, the suspect was caught on surveillance camera shooting and critically wounding a homeless man sleeping outside the Cherokee shopping center in Brookhaven.
Police credited a private neighborhood’s Flock license plate reader with identifying a rental car Abel was traveling in (a silver Volkswagen Jetta) and helping track him down to Troup County, where he was arrested late Monday afternoon.
‘This has been a very tragic day for DeKalb County as a whole and unincorporated DeKalb County,’ said DeKalb County Police Chief Greg Padrick. ‘We have been investigating two separate DeKalb County homicides from early this morning that we have been able to put together as connected incidents.’
Abel at this time faces two counts of malice murder, a count of aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon or first offender probationer.
Authorities have yet to say what led to the shooting spree in which all three victims were seemingly selected at random. Authorities said that they didn’t yet know whether the victims in the two fatalities in unincorporated DeKalb County, knew their assailant.
DeKalb police ask anyone with information to send an anonymous tip through their free DeKalb County PD app or by texting “DKPD” to 847411, followed by the tip.
