FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: March 13, 2008 Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force United States Marshals Service Inspector Katrina R. Crouse (404) 520-1843   U.S. MARSHALS AND JAMAICAN AUTHORITIES APPREHEND 17-YEAR-OLD FEMALE COBB COUNTY MURDER SUSPECT   Atlanta, GA – On March 12, 2008, Investigators with the U.S. Marshals Service working with the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Jamaican Fugitive Apprehension Team (JFAT) captured Jillian Andrea Hill in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. Jillian Hill was wanted by the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office for homicide. On April 21, 2007 after 4:00 a.m., Jillian Hill in concert with her half sister, Sheneka Baker-Sharp, is believed to have killed Ahmad Rashed Hill by shooting him in the back of the head. It appears the shooting occurred as a result of an attempted robbery in the parking lot of the Cumberland Glen Apartments in Smyrna, Georgia. Baker-Sharp and Jillian Hill were allegedly with Ahmad Hill in his vehicle when the shooting occurred. At the time of the homicide, Jillian Hill was just sixteen years old. Shortly after learning of her charges, Sheneka Baker-Sharp turned herself in to authorities and is now awaiting trial in the case. Jillian Hill has been a fugitive ever since the homicide warrants were issued. On June 5, 2007, Cobb County Sheriff’s Office and United States Marshals (USMS) Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force (SERFTF) investigators teamed up and began working the case jointly. Investigators were able to determine that Jillian Hill had immediately fled the Atlanta area after the shooting and headed to her previous place of residency in Sunrise, Florida. In April 2007, she boarded a plane to Kingston, Jamaica to an unknown address. In February of 2008, Investigators from the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office and the USMS-SERFTF traveled to the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida area to further investigative efforts in locating Jillian Hill. There these Investigators met and worked with members of the U.S. Marshals Ft. Lauderdale Office, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and a U.S. Marshal assigned to the Jamaican Foreign Field Office. Information was developed during this joint fugitive investigation that generated a possible new location where Jillian Hill may be hiding in Jamaica. This information was passed to the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Jamaican Fugitive Apprehension Team (JFAT). Acting on this information, JFAT located and arrested Jillian Hill at an apartment in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica on the morning of March 12, 2008. Jillian Hill was to be presented to a judge today in Jamaica for removal proceedings involving her return to the United States. She will be held in custody in Kingston, Jamaica until her return. Jillian Hill is now seventeen years old. Cobb County Sheriff Neal Warren indicated “our partnership with the U.S. Marshal’s is a valuable tool that assists our efforts to apprehend dangerous and violent offenders that commit crimes in our community and flee the area.    When law enforcement works together we enhance our service to the citizens.” The U.S. Marshal’s Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force (SERFTF) is a team comprised of law enforcement officers from the United States Marshals Service, as well as, 27 other local, state and federal agencies. The task force’s objective is to seek out and arrest the region’s most violent offenders. Since the inception of the task force in September of 2003, the SERFTF has closed over 11, 500 felony warrants. Annually, U.S. Marshals locate and arrest more fugitives than all other federal law enforcement agencies combined. In 2003, the U.S. Marshals Service opened field offices in Mexico City, Mexico; Kingston, Jamaica; and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.  The focus of these offices is to coordinate U.S. Marshals Service fugitive investigations with law enforcement in each country to coordinate arrests, extraditions, and deportations. Additional information about the U.S. Marshals can be found at http://www.usmarshals.gov .