Atlanta area arson, murder suspect arrested during Chambers County traffic stop
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An arson and murder suspect from the Atlanta-area has been arrested during an Alabama traffic stop.
The suspect, identified as 44-year-old Shawn Fails,was arrested when Lanett police conducted a traffic stop just off Interstate 85 in Chambers County.
Fails was a wanted subject connected to a deadly apartment fire that occurred early Labor Day morning in Dekalb County, Georgia. WSB-TV reported that Stephanie Wiley was killed in the fire, and her son was injured
Fails was taken into custody on a Fugitive from Justice charge and is currently being held at the Chambers County Detention facility pending an extradition hearing. He faces charges in DeKalb County for murder, aggravated assault, and arson.
The investigation into the deadly apartment fire remains ongoing.
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