CEDARTOWN -- Police are still investigating a Cedartown homicide that left Adias Tomas, 23, dead from blunt force trauma.

At 10:18 p.m., on Saturday, June 20, Polk County 911 received a call from 223 3rd St., Cedartown, in regards to an unknown problem. The dispatcher was not able to understand exactly what was going on due to a language barrier.

What the dispatcher could understand was that an ambulance was needed at the residence.

Officers Teress Henderson and Jason Cox of the Cedartown Police Department arrived on the scene at 10:21 p.m. to find two Hispanic males on the front porch of the home.

Inside, the officers found an unresponsive Hispanic male in the front room of the house. He was subsequently identified as Tomas.

The officers rendered aid as best they could until EMS arrived on the scene. The officers also noted severe head trauma to the victim.

Polk County EMS and Cedartown Fire and Rescue arrived shortly after, along with Chief Henry King, Assistant Chief Jamie Newsome and Det. Sgt. Steve Rush, all of the Cedartown Police Department.

Polk County EMS transported Tomas to Polk Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead upon arrival.

Officers on the scene requested assistance in the investigation from the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI).

GBI sent a general investigator and a crime scene specialist to assist with the crime scene.

The two Hispanic males initially told investigators that four black males had entered the residence and severely beat the victim.

According to Newsome, evidence at the scene was inconsistent with that story.

Officers arrested Anibal De Leon-Tomas, 21, and charged him with murder.

Newsome confirmed that both the victim and the man charged with the murder were residents at the 3rd Street home.

Newsome also confirmed that the two were somehow related, but did not release details.

The victim received “multiple blows to the head,” according to Newsome.

Police are not releasing the murder weapon at this time.

Detectives at the Cedartown Police Department are still conducting interviews in an attempt to piece together exactly what happened.

Newsome said they will release more information at a later time.