Four-Year-Old Colby Cooks Found Dead in Atlanta

Four-year-old Colby Cooks was found dead in a southwest Atlanta townhome after police responded to a welfare check. The Fulton County Medical Examiner determined that he died from blunt force trauma. Authorities arrested 32-year-old Jasmaine Smoak, a friend of Cooks’s mother who is not related to him, and charged her with second-degree cruelty to children and concealing a death. Smoak had three children with her when arrested; one had visible injuries and was hospitalized, though officials have not publicly detailed the injuries or the circumstances surrounding Cooks’s death. The investigation is ongoing.