A judge this week denied a request for a new trial by a former cop convicted of killing a Georgia teen in 2022. Miles Bryant’s attorney argued that he didn’t receive adequate representation at his trial, WXIA reported. Bryant also objected to use of Life360 data during the trial. The judge denied the motion after …
A suburban Atlanta police officer has been arrested after he allegedly raped a woman he had arrested. The City of South Fulton Police Department said that Micheal Cockran, 30, has been charged with sexual assault by a person with supervisory or disciplinary authority and violation of oath of office while on duty. Police said the …
An Oklahoma man has been arrested after he allegedly shot his twin sister and her 17-month-old daughter to death and then fled to Georgia. Grant Wilson, a 31-year-old native of Oklahoma, was arrested in Monroe County, south of Atlanta, on Sunday morning, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said. The agency said that LeFlore County …
A Georgia man has been charged with murder when he gunned down his childhood friend after touching the friend’s wife inappropriately. Buffy Cothern said that Brandon Frick touched her arm while she and her husband were giving him a ride in Waycross, WTLV reported. She said she was driving and pulled over, and her husband, …
A Georgia man was arrested after he was caught on video last month shoving two kids on bicycles into fountains as they rode past him in a Sandy Springs park. Stephen Catterton is seen walking by the fountains on February 28, then stopping before the two boys reached him, shoving one into a fountain on …
A federal judge this week dismissed a $1 billion lawsuit filed by the parents of a 17-year-old boy found dead in rolled up wrestling mat in 2013. U.S. District Judge Sarah Geraghty noted inconsistencies in the initial investigation into Kendrick Johnson’s death, but ultimately kicked the lawsuit out largely over what amounts to technicalities, WAGA …
A Georgia mother was arrested over the weekend after she was seen slamming her 5-year-old daughter into a fence at a crowded festival in Evans. Witnesses told police that Jordyn Whitlaw, 34, grabbed the girl by the neck and slammed her face into the fence at a Mardi Gras celebration at Evans Towne Center Park, …
A woman was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Georgia elementary school on Tuesday in what school officials said was apparently a domestic dispute. Officials have not named the victim of the shooting at Palmetto Elementary School, WSB reported, but said the suspect was arrested in Houston County, more than 100 miles …
Police in the eastern Atlanta suburbs are investigating the shooting death of a 17-year-old boy at a Lilburn extended stay motel. Gwinnett County Police said they were called to the Live In Lodge just before midnight Thursday and found the boy dead, WANF reported. They said they’d taken a person into custody in connection with …
Police in eastern Georgia are searching for a man they say dropped a dead woman off at an Augusta hospital and then fled the scene. Investigators say they used fingerprints to identify the dead woman as 41-year-old Selena Johnson, WRDW reported. A nurse said they helped the man bring the woman into the hospital emergency …
A frightened child hiding in a closet with two other children called 911 to report a shooting in their home, and police arrived to find four adults dead. The call came in at about 2:30 a.m. Friday in Gwinnett County, Georgia, and officers quickly arrived and found the four victims, according to the Gwinnett County …
A Georgia man was arrested last week after a 8-week-old baby was brought to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta with a brain bleed caused by abusive head trauma. Julian Chase Jalbert Sr. 27, was arrested at the hospital on Wednesday on child cruelty and battery charges, WAGA reports. Hall County deputies were initially called to a …
