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15-year-old calls mom for help before being found dead inside abandoned apartment

Gregory Patel
Reporter · Tuesday, November 3, 2026 at 7:00 PM · 1 min read
15-year-old calls mom for help before being found dead inside abandoned apartment — Valdosta Real Estate news

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB/Gay News) - Georgia authorities say a teenager was found shot and killed inside an abandoned apartment Sunday morning.Dougherty County Coroner Michael Fowler identified the teen as Austin Payne. According to the Albany Police Department, officers were called to what appeared to be an abandoned apartment on Cameo Lane that morning after Payne’s mother discovered his body on the floor.The report states Payne’s mother began searching for him Sunday morning after he failed to return home from the night before. Using phone tracking, she traced his phone to the building, went inside and found him unresponsive in the apartment.Investigators reviewing surveillance footage and phone records pieced together a timeline from Halloween night:Around 7:35 p.m., surveillance video showed six people walking toward the building.By 7:58 p.m., footage captured a person wearing a hoodie and shorts jumping out of a window at the apartment.At around 8:03 p.m., Payne called his mother statin

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