Columbus man charged with murder in Dekalb County

Two days after a Columbus woman was gunned down outside a Waffle House in Decatur, a Columbus man was charged with felony murder Thursday in Dekalb County and held in the Muscogee County Jail, authorities said.

Anthony Perryman, 27, was taken into custody without incident at 1:46 p.m. on Hunter Court in Columbus. Authorities are holding him for the Dekalb County Police Department.

Tanaya Dunlap, 31, was shot and killed early Tuesday outside a Waffle House restaurant in Decatur, the DeKalb County Medical Examiner’s Office said. She was pronounced dead at 2:13 a.m. at the Grady Memorial Hospital, said Mark Anglin, the chief investigator with the examiner’s office.

DeKalb County police were called to the Waffle House at 4750 Flat Shoals Parkway around 2 a.m. Tuesday to investigate a shooting. No additional details are available at this time.

Stay with the Ledger-Enquirer for more on this developing story.

Staff writer Sarah Robinson contributed to this story.

This story was originally published June 15, 2017 at 8:02 PM with the headline "Columbus man charged with murder in Dekalb County."