Three men are being held in jail

for the murder of a Starr's Mill High

School student two months ago in what Coweta County deputies are calling a

drug-related robbery attempt.

Shots rang out during the March 30 incident at Lakeside Apartments in Newnan,

killing Heather Rhodes, 17, of Peachtree City. Two other men were shot but

survived their injuries, police said.

Two of the suspects are charged with murder: Marquis Damon Cannon 28, of 72

Thigpen Rd., Newnan and Roderick Calvin Thomas, 24, of 5632 Cypress Dr., Forest

Park. A third suspect is charged with felony murder (party to a crime): Anricus

Rayshun Holston, 21, of Apt. 502, 22 Forest Circle, Newnan.

Cannon also worked at Alenco Windows in Peachtree City, according to the warrants

for his arrest.

The criminal cases against all three suspects have been bound over to Coweta

Superior Court after commitment hearings were conducted in Coweta Magistrate

Court. Because of the murder charges on each, a Superior Court judge must consider

any bond request instead of a magistrate due to the seriousness of the charges.

In arrest warrants, detectives with

the Coweta County Sheriff's Department

said the robbery was Holston's idea to get marijuana from the apartment.

Holston also drove Cannon and Thomas to the apartment in a green Ford Explorer,

police said.

Cannon and Thomas burst into the apartment after knocking on the door, with

one of the men brandishing a shotgun that ultimately killed Rhodes, police

said. Rhodes died on the scene of her injuries, police added.

Rhodes was dating one of the men

who lived at the apartment, police said. She was remembered by school officials

as having a sweet demeanor. She was

also described as "very energetic and very polite."

In memory of Rhodes and fellow students

Jillian and Charles Wagner, who died in a auto crash on Mother's Day, students, faculty and administrators

at Starr's Mill wore blue ribbons during the school's graduation

ceremony Friday night.

Rhodes and Jillian Wagner were on schedule to graduate with the class of 2004,

school officials said.