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SWAT team arrests 2 murder suspects in Dawson County
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Forsyth County SWAT team members mobilize at a nearby church before maneuvering into a home on Harmony Church Road in Dawson County where a murder suspect had barricaded himself Tuesday. The suspect was arrested after a nearly three hour standoff. - photo by Michele Hester
A more than three-hour standoff in Dawson County on Tuesday ended with a second murder suspect in custody. John Michael Taylor, 27, of Acworth was arrested around 7 p.m., hours after he barricaded himself in a home on Harmony Church Road, according to Dawson County Sheriff Billy Carlisle. Taylor was one of three suspects charged Monday night in the murder of 47-year-old Christopher Pierce, who was found shot to death Sunday night inside his Woodstock home in Cherokee County.