MOULTRIE — A suspect in a 2004 quintuple homicide was indicted Tuesday on charges that could bring the death penalty.

Wilma Ann Yvonne Stover, 22, was indicted on five counts of felony murder.

District Attorney David Miller will handle the case and will make the determination on whether to seek the death penalty, Assistant District Attorney Brian McDaniel said Thursday.

“Mr. Miller has not made that announcement,” McDaniel said.

The decision on whether to seek the death penalty must be announced by the time of Stover’s arraignment, McDaniel said.

The next arraignment date is July 6, but Stover likely will not be among those arraigned at that time.

Stover is accused in connection with the deaths of Jaime Cruz Resendez, 25, Katrina Darlene Resendez, 29, Lillianna Aguillar Rodriguez, 30, Betty Watts, 50, and 3-year-old Juan Carlos Resendez.

Stover is currently in federal prison on unrelated charges.

A second suspect in the case, Jerry Johnny Thompson Jr., 48, was indicted in December 2006. He is serving a 27-year federal prison sentence in another case.

No court date has been set for Thompson or Stover in the slayings in Colquitt County that occurred on Adel Highway.

A relative found the four family members and Rodriguez, a family friend and housekeeper, shot to death on Nov. 8, 2004, when he came home from school.

Investigators have said that Jaime Resendez was involved with a marijuana trafficking ring that stretched from Texas to Moultrie.

The drug link resulted in federal indictments in April 2005 of Thompson, Stover and four other known associates of Resendez for trafficking more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana with a street value of $1 million.

Valdosta attorney Jody Peterman had previously represented Stover but was released from the case.

Court officials were unsure whether Stover has new counsel at this time.