Crime & Safety

Update: Wichita Remains Identified

Police identify body found last week in a Cascade abandoned house.


Atlanta police have identified the remains of a last week.

"The remains have been identified as those of Marvin Simmons," police spokesperson K.Y. Jones said, .

On Feb. 22, the APD's Missing Persons Unit was in the area canvassing for a missing person when an officer found badly decomposed remains in the rear of an abandoned house at 1353 Wichita Drive.

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Simmons' last known location was 1378 Wichita Drive in the Venetian Hills Elementary area.

According to the Fulton County Medical Examiner's office, cause of death has not yet been identified.

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