Life without parole for man who killed girlfriend and her son, leaving 8-year-old boy with the bodies

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A Buford man was convicted Thursday of murdering his live-in girlfriend and her teenage son in a 2021 shooting that left their bodies locked in a bedroom for two days while an 8-year-old child unknowingly remained in the home, prosecutors said.

William Jerome Adams, 29, was found guilty of two counts of felony murder and two counts of aggravated assault for the March 24, 2021, killings of Mary Lindsay, 39, and her 15-year-old son, Atif Muhammad Jr. A Gwinnett County jury sentenced Adams to two consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole.

The bodies were discovered on March 26 after Lindsay’s daughter, 19, climbed through a window to check on her mother, who had not been heard from in days. Inside the locked bedroom, she found Lindsay and Muhammad dead…