In what appeared to be a quiet home in Forsyth County, a tragic story unfolded, leaving a father and son dead in an apparent murder-suicide. The grim discovery was made on a Wednesday morning, January 21, 2025 when Anthony Gennaro Persichetti, a 46-year-old male, failed to show up for his job. His ex-wife, concerned by his absence, went to his residence on Jefferson Place to check on him. What she found inside was a scene of violence; Anthony Persichetti was deceased.
Responding to a call from the ex-wife, deputies from the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office arrived at the home around 10 a.m. The ex-wife immediately voiced her fears to the investigators, suggesting that the couple's 24-year-old son, Anthony David Persichetti, who lived with his father, might have been involved. This suspicion set in motion a search for the younger Persichetti.
The investigation into the son's whereabouts took a somber turn when the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office received a call from the DeKalb County Medical Examiner's Office. They had found the body of Anthony David Persichetti in a wooded area along North Druid Hills Road. The evidence at the scene indicated that the younger man had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Investigators pieced together a timeline of events that suggested a heated argument between the father and son occurred on the preceding Tuesday evening, sometime between 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. It is believed that during this altercation, Anthony David Persichetti shot his father multiple times before leaving the residence. He then traveled to DeKalb County, where he ultimately took his own life. While the investigation was ongoing, authorities treated the case as a murder-suicide with the son as the sole suspect in his father's death.
