GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A woman who was already in jail for stabbing someone has now been charged in the 2019 stabbing death of a Gwinnett County man.
Channel 2 Action News first told you about the murder of Ray Neal, 61, in July 2019.
Neal’s cause of death was initially listed as natural causes, but the funeral home found that he had actually been stabbed several times. A Gwinnett County medical examiner’s investigator was disciplined after listing the cause of death incorrectly twice.
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His death was ruled a homicide days later, but it has taken years for investigators to determine
One of Neal’s family members told the Gwinnett County Police Department Cold Case Unit last year saying Carmen Marie Hunt, 50, may be responsible for Neal’s death. Hunt was already in the Gwinnett County Jail for stabbing someone in 2022.
Investigators were able to find new evidence and charge Hunt with felony murder and aggravated assault. She is still being held in the Gwinnett County Jail on the 2022 charges and new warrants.
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In the days after he died, Neal’s family members told Channel 2 Action News that they thought his death was suspicious from the start.
“There’s no way. It was too much blood,” said Neal’s sister, Michelle Smalls, of his death being ruled natural.
But because Neal had several known illnesses, including hepatitis C, the investigator apparently believed the blood loss was part of his natural death.
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