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Ex-Deputy charged with killing wife and day laborer
Derrick Yancey has surrendered to authorities
By DAVID MARKIEWICZ, DAVID SIMPSON

The Atlanta Journal-Const

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Former DeKalb County sheriff’s deputy Derrick Yancey was charged with murder Thursday in the shooting deaths of his wife and a day laborer at his home June 9.

Yancey was indicted on two counts of murder in the deaths of his wife, Linda Yancey, 44, and the laborer, Marcial Cax-Puluc, whom police said was age 23. Don Geary, DeKalb chief assistant district attorney, said Yancey, who resigned from the sheriff’s office on Monday, also faces two weapons charges in the incident.

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• DeKalb County news Yancey told police he killed Cax-Puluc after the illegal Guatemalan immigrant shot Linda Yancey. Derrick Yancey said he had hired Cax-Puluc to do yard work. He said the man found one of Yancey’s guns in his home and used it to try to rob Linda Yancey.

Yancey surrendered to authorities at the DeKalb County Jail at 2:40 p.m. Thursday, said Mikki Jones, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office. She said he would be moved to another jail because of his former job with the sheriff’s office, which oversees the DeKalb jail.

Linda Yancey also worked for the sheriff’s office. She spent 13 years there, most recently as an intake officer in juvenile court. Derrick Yancey
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WHO KILLED WHO?

I would never let an illegal alien near my house if I could help it.

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Officials to Update Killing of Officer, Day Laborer
Posted By: Tracey Christensen
DECATUR, Ga. -- Officials with DeKalb County's District Attorney's office will release new details Thursday in the case of a sheriff's deputy who killed a day laborer inside his home after he said the man shot and killed his wife.

Assistant District Attorney Don Geary will brief reporters on the case at 1:30 p.m., an hour-and-a-half before DeKalb County Police Chief Terrell Bolton will hold his own briefing.

Deputy Derrick Yancey was off-duty when he shot Marcial Cax-Puluc, 23, on June 9 inside his home in Stone Mountain. Yancey said Cax-Puluc shot his wife, DeKalb County Detention Officer Linda Yancey, 44, during a robbery attempt.

Cax-Puluc, from Guatemala, came to the United States just six weeks before he was killed. His family, which is being represented by The Cochran Firm, has said they do not believe he was capable of violence.




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Ex-Deputy Indicted on Two Counts of Murder
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Posted By: Tracey Christensen

DECATUR, Ga. -- A grand jury returned an indictment Thursday charging a DeKalb County Sheriff's deputy with two counts of murder in the deaths of his wife and a day laborer inside his home last June.

A grand jury warrant was issued for the arrest of Derrick Yancey, who turned himself into the DeKalb County jail Thursday afternoon. Yancey was searched personally by Sheriff Thomas Brown, booked, and then moved to an undisclosed jail for his own protection.

Assistant District Attorney Don Geary said Yancey, who resigned from the department last month, was informed of the indictment about noon Thursday.

Yancey claimed that Marcial Cax-Puluc was an intruder who shot and killed his wife, Linda, during a robbery attempt inside the couple's two-story brick home on June 9. Yancey said he then killed Cax-Puluc, who had arrived in the United States just six weeks earlier from Guatemala.

The victims were killed with different weapons, Geary said. The indictment also charges Yancey with two weapons offenses of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.

Linda Yancey, 44, was a DeKalb County detention officer for 13 years who most recently worked in the juvenile intake section, according to published reports. Derrick Yancey was a 17-year veteran deputy who transported inmates around the state.

Yancey's attorney said he has every confidence his client will be found not guilty. Keith Adams told 11Alive News that he is working on getting his client's bail set and that he and the district attorney simply disagree on the evidence.

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The indictment also charges Yancey with two weapons offenses of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.

Sounds familiar (Ramos and Compean).

The victims were killed with different weapons, Geary said.

Why would he kill them both with two different weapons?

I've read a lot about forensic evidence a recreating crime scenes. If the deputy is telling the truth, it will come out as the bullet wound positions are examined and the angles of trajectory are established. I wonder if there are any fingerprints to work with.