Fourth Suspect in Armored Car Robbery Surrenders

Edwin Thornton, the fourth man charged with robbing an armored car and shooting one of its guards on Redan Road in January turned himself in to DeKalb County police Friday morning.

"Thornton along with his attorney walked into the DeKalb County Police Department Headquarters and surrendered," the police department said in a statement.

Three others -- Ashley Henderson, 27, Stacy Dooley, 34, and Quinton Booker, 34, --  were charged by DeKalb police yesterday with armed robbery, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. They were arrested by Gwinnett police this week and were jailed in that county. 

The men are thought to be linked to a series of armed robberies throughout the metro area. Three of them -- Thornton, Henderson and Dooley -- are also charged with the killing of armored car guard Gary Castillo and the robbery at Toco Hill Shopping Center last month.

The guard in the Redan shooting was shot multiple times, but recovered.

Thornton also faces two armed robbery charges in Gwinnett County. So far, five people have been charged with crimes related to the armored car robbery spree. The FBI has been chasing the men responsible for the robberies since Sept. 14 when two men robbed a Garda armored courier while he was servicing an ATM at a Bank of America on Howell Mill Road. Two men struck again in Marietta Oct. 7 when they robbed a courier at gunpoint inside a Mex-America Latino store. 

Another robbery occurred in Buford on Nov. 11, Snellville on Nov. 29 and inside the Mall of Georgia in Gwinnett County on Dec. 7. A second courier was able to fire at one of the robbers who fled the mall through a side door, according to an FBI statement. The Redan Road and Toco Hill Shopping Center robberies followed.