A 30-year-old man was charged with first-degree murder after his father was found dead with an apparent stab wound at a home in the , law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
Connor Allen Paige was arrested in Elbert County on Saturday after deputies found his 64-year-old father dead at a home on Durango Street in unincorporated Adams County, Sgt. Adam Sherman said Wednesday.
The man’s identity has not yet been released by the
Deputies responded to the home at 9:20 a.m. Saturday and found Paige’s father dead in his bedroom with a possible stab wound, Sherman said.
Investigators tracked Paige to Elbert County, where he was arrested approximately three hours later.
He is charged with first-degree murder, third-degree motor vehicle theft and two counts of violating a protection order, according to the . The murder and theft charges are felonies and the protection order violations are misdemeanors.
Paige is in custody at the Adams County Detention Facility on a $2 million cash bail and is set to appear in court July 19, according to court records and the district attorney’s office.
This is a developing story and may be updated.
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