Lithonia woman arrested on murder charges in mother’s death

The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Unit has arrested a Lithonia, Georgia woman on felony murder charges.

According to an arrest warrant issued on May 27,  49-year-old Olivia Lynn Walker committed Elder Neglect between January 2016 and January 2020, causing the death of her mother, Mattie Lynn Bullard, at a Marbut Farms Trail residence in Lithonia.  The warrant alleges that Bullard suffered a stroke in 2015 after having been under Walker’s care since 2010.

DeKalb Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Investigators located Walker at her residence in Lithonia, where she was arrested and transported to the DeKalb County Jail without incident.