Body Found In Trash Compactor

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Two maintenance workers at a Dekalb County apartment complex may have uncovered a homicide, but they probably wish they never saw what they found.

It was a body. And it was dumped with the trash at the Hidden Pointe apartment complex off Covington Highway. The body was in a trash compactor. The maintenance workers were about to turn it on when they saw an arm. They called 911.

DeKalb County police officer Herschel Grangent says police received the call at nine-o’clock this morning.

“Currently we don't know cause of death, or anything like that, but we do know it’s an adult black male and we're attempting at this point to identify him.” Grangent said.

An employee of the apartment complex who saw the body told 11Alive News he didn't think the man was a tenant at Hidden Pointe. He said he saw blood on the man’s back from what he thought was a bullet hole. He described the man as in his forties.

A manager at Hidden Pointe said the body was probably dumped overnight because maintenance usually runs the compactor twice a day; once in the morning and once at night.

Antonio Cherry lives in the apartment complex with his wife and grandchild. He moved in two months ago.

“I'm just concerned about their safety at this point,” he said. “I moved from a bad neighborhood thinking I'm moving to a better neighborhood and I'm still in the same situation.”

But police don't know at this point if the death occurred in the apartment complex, or if Hidden Pointe was used as a dumping ground