Arrest Made In ‘Brutal Homicide’ Near Munson

An 18-year old woman was arrested Friday night in connection with the early Friday morning shooting death of a man at a home near Munson.

Aubrey Dewayne Cooley, 40, was found deceased from a gunshot wound at a home at 2305 Dale Hall Road about 12:50 a.m. Friday. Taylor Lynn Crongeyer was charged with an open count of homicide and booked into the Santa Rosa County Jail Friday night without bond.

Santa Rosa County deputies responded to the home just off Munson Highway south of Highway 4 in reference to a welfare check. When they arrived on scene, Crongeyer exited the residence with a large amount of blood on her clothing, according to an arrest report.

When deputies walked through the residence, they found blood spots on the floor, a bedroom mattress and outside on the front and back porch areas. They also found a rifle on the floor at the foot of a bed in the master bedroom. Outside the rear of the home, deputies reported finding Cooley tied to the trailer hitch of a pickup truck with a rope around his ankles. He was deceased from a gunshot wound to the head.

Cooley is Crongeyer’s stepfather, according to reports.

Deputy Rich Aloy, public information officer for the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office, said detectives, crime scene units and members of the State Attorney’s Office worked throughout the day Friday collecting sufficient evidence to charge Crongeyer with what he termed a “brutal homicide”.