CUMMING - The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office identified the body of a woman whose body was found early Tuesday morning in an abandoned farmhouse on Union Hill Road near the Forsyth/Fulton County border.
"She has been identified as 30 year-old Octavia Nicole Atkins of Treehouse Parkway in Roswell," said Forsyth County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Karlene Chalker, "She had been reported missing to the Roswell Police Department, and she was last seen alive several days ago by her family."
Forsyth Sheriff's Captain Frank Huggins said that a surveyor found Ms. Atkins when his crew came upon the farmhouse while surveying commercial property.
"The surveyor said he had looked in to the house, either through a window or a door and spotted the body of a black female lying on the floor," said Capt. Huggins. "At first he said he thought it was a mannequin and then realized that he was actually looking at a human body."
Ms. Atkins is survived by a husband and two children. Chalker said Forsyth County investigators are conducting a search of her Centennial Ridge apartment in Roswell, and her body was taken to the state crime lab Tuesday.
"The autopsy results are pending from the state crime lab, but it does appear that she was the victim of foul play," said Chalker.
Last week in this same area of the complex, my neighbor had her purse snatched in the hallway of the building and another woman had her car stolen...not broken in to...stolen. I'm dying to move but I can't afford to buy out my lease. Guess I'm stuck for another 9 mos.
This family lived in the new section..up on the hill beside the clubhouse. This is not the only violent crime in this neighborhood in the last few months.