According to the warrants, Flynt left his family's home in Loganville on July 29 and spoke to a family member around 10:45 a.m. That was the last time his family ever heard from him again.
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His family was able to later access his iCloud and provide the phone's account to law enforcement. Police later found out that Flynt had been communicating with a 21-year-old woman named Audrey Zalky on that same day and that Flynt had plugged in his GPS directions to the Marquis at Buckhead apartment complex on Colonial Holmes Drive, the warrants allege.
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Police later came to find out there had been a shots fired call that same day, just after 12:15 p.m. A resident in the leasing office had said they had a bullet hole that had penetrated the wall of their unit from the residence across the hall, according to the warrant. The leasing office then contacted the owner of the unit who said that a woman had picked up a gun and accidentally fired a shot off.
As the investigation continued into Flynt's disappearance, the warrants state that police plugged in Flynt's pickup truck into the license plate reader and found out the truck had entered the Lowe's parking lot on Caroline Street NE in Atlanta. It was there that police found video surveillance of Stephens and Zalky get out of Flynt's truck and go inside.
It was inside the store where they bought a handsaw and bolt cutters, according to the warrants. Later that night, doorbell camera footage captured the man mentioned in the warrant moving "bulk items on a furniture dolly" from the apartment unit in the direction of the elevators.
Stephens was identified through the leasing account of the resident's owner, as she allegedly used the same card number to make the purchase at Lowe's that was also listed on the apartment billing records, the warrants allege. A search of her phone records revealed that Stephens also lived inside the same unit at the Marquis at Buckhead.
The warrants also stated that the phone record search revealed Stephens and Zalky were also in the area of the apartment complex when the shots fired call came in on July 29 and at the Lowe's when they suspected she was the other woman as they allegedly purchased a handsaw and bolt cutters.
After police used OnStar to track Flynt's GMC Canyon to the parking lot of a CVS Pharmacy in Detroit, they found out the location was just 20 minutes away from the address listed on the Michigan ID card of the man who was the leaseholder of the apartment in Atlanta. This is the same person the warrant alleges who told the apartment leasing office that a gun went off when his "female friend was handling it."
Authorities searched for Flynt's truck there, but never found it, according to the warrants.