Lester Piercefield was sentenced to life in prison after he fatally shot a man and woman and injured a third person in Cobb County, Georgia, on July 11, 2022. (Cobb County Police Department)
A Georgia judge sentenced a 29-year-old man who murdered a young mother and father to two life terms in prison plus 25 years, Cobb County prosecutors said Friday.
Cobb County Police responded on July 11, 2022, to an apartment in the 400 block of Westwood Place in Austell for a shooting. When officers arrived they found Yolanda Speller outside her home suffering from a gunshot would to the face. Inside the home, they found Jeremy Davis, 27, and Lena Wolfe, 24, dead from multiple gunshot wounds to the head and face, prosecutors said.
Speller gave cops a description of the vehicle and suspect and detectives identified the car via surveillance video. The video showed the suspect car entered the apartment complex at 4:08 a.m. and fleeing on 4:19 a.m., according to prosecutors. Cops learned the vehicle belonged to Lester Piercefield. They tracked him to nearby Paulding County where they arrested him.
Investigators found out that Piercefield had been hanging out with Wolfe and Davis before the shootings. Piercefield and Wolfe took Davis back to Speller’s home where he was living around 2:30 a.m. Around 90 minutes later, for reasons unknown, Piercefield and Wolfe returned to Speller’s home. They went to Davis’ room and “within minutes” Speller heard gunfire, according to prosecutors. Speller went to see what happened and Piercefield opened fire on her, striking her in the eye.
Prosecutors say Piercefield used two guns and fired at least eight rounds — four to Davis’ body, and two each at Speller and Wolfe.
“It takes an especially evil and heartless man to slaughter two parents and attempt to kill a third. Davis was a father of two little boys. Wolfe was a mother of three young sons. It is sickening that these five boys are left only with memories of their mom and dad.” Senior Assistant District Attorney Stephanie Green said in a statement.
Wolfe’s fiance Wendell Evans told WSB-TV that her youngest was just 5 months old at the time of the shooting.
“They keep asking me, ‘Where Mommy at?’” Evans said. “Now I got to figure out how to tell these kids. I haven’t even told them that their mom is gone.”
A jury earlier this month convicted Piercefield of two counts of murder, aggravated assault, aggravated battery and possession of a firearm during commission of a felony.
The prosecutor’s office said Piercefield also is a suspect in a double homicide in South Carolina. WSPA reported that Piercefield was one of two people arrested for accessory after the fact of a felony in a August 2020 in Anderson County, South Carolina. Cops found Billy Ray Johnson, 57, and Amy Jo Lambert, 30, shot to death in a burning trailer. Police arrested Piercefield after they found the murder weapon in his car during a traffic stop, the Independent Mail reported.
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