North Fulton Today

Six years after a grandmother and her two grandchildren were killed by a driver trying to escape police in College Park, a suspect has been arrested.

Fox 5 Atlanta reports that Diontre Tigner, now 22, has been charged with hit and run, felony murder, evading police and reckless driving.

Tigner was arrested after another police chase in Cobb County, Joi Partridge told the station. Her mother, Dorothy Wright and two children, were killed in the 2016 College Park crash. They were driving to church when their car was hit by a motorist trying to elude police, Partridge said.

Police linked Tigner to the 2016 case through DNA evidence, Patridge said.

After six years, she thought the case would never be solved.

"I didn’t think no one was looking," she told the station. "I didn’t think anyone cared."

She was shocked when police called to say Tigner had been arrested.

"I couldn’t believe they caught him," she told the station. "He was in another high-speed chase in Cobb County, and they caught him this time. We are just glad he’s off the streets." 

Partridge has set up a foundation in memory of her mother and children. It helps families pay burial costs for adolescent children, Fox 5 said.

"We will never have closure, but we just want to get justice because we will always have the pain forever," she told the state. "There’s nothing that will close on it. It will always be an open wound."