An Atlanta police officer was one of two people found dead inside a home near Piedmont Park on Saturday, authorities said.
Officers were asked to conduct a wellness check around 4 p.m. in the 600 block of Cooledge Avenue, Deputy Chief Prenzinna Spann told reporters at the scene. The residence is near the southeast corner of the park and the Atlanta Beltline’s Eastside trail.
When they arrived, the officers found a man and a woman dead inside the home. They were identified Sunday by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office as Atlanta police officer Kevin Stroner, 56, and 44-year-old Moriah Cardona.
Stroner joined APD in 2011 and was promoted to investigator in 2017, according to Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council records. In 2012, he was praised by the department for stopping an armed robbery at a Family Dollar store on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in southwest Atlanta.
“(Officers) are grieving,” Spann said. “But we do have employee assistance for them.”
Police said it was an insolated incident, with no threat to the community. No one else was in the home at the time.
“This is a death investigation,” Spann added. “It is ongoing.”
—AJC data specialist Jennifer Peebles contributed to this article
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