Georgia teacher accused of homicide allegedly also stole $100K from church weeks before dying in a fiery car crash

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A Dekalb County Georgia high school teacher allegedly stole more than $100,000 from a church weeks before he reportedly killed his partner and then died in a horrific car crash as he fled police.

According to the AJC, Roy McClendon-Thompson had a problematic past and was arrested on embezzlement charges just three weeks ago after Tabernacle Baptist Church on Moreland Drive filed a fraud report on April 26, 2018.

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McClendon-Thompson, 42, was the chief financial officer for the church, and it is alleged that he transferred more than $100,000 from their accounts to his personal account.

A friend of McClendon-Thompson, Gerald Griggs told WSB radio that he didn’t believe that McClendon-Thompson stole the money.

However, the church secretary told police that McClendon-Thompson stole approximately $103,843.30, between November 2015 and last April. Police issued an arrest warrant for McClendon-Thompson who they allege had deposited church funds into personal accounts.

McClendon-Thompson worked as a social studies teacher at McNair High School and was a suspect in killing a man, James Curtis Jones, who he had reportedly been dating.

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McClendon-Thompson allegedly shot and killed Jones in the parking deck of a Dunwoody apartment complex where he resided.

When police pursued McClendon-Thompson in his Ellenwood home, he fled and was killed in a fatal car crash, investigators said.

He had been booked on the church theft charges and was released two days later on $15,000 bond. He had a court appearance scheduled for Friday.