The nursing student killed last week on the University of Georgia campus in Athens called 911 during the attack and was connected to a dispatcher, but police officers were apparently not sent. British tabloid The Daily Mail said they asked UGA campus police about one of the charges against Jose Antonio Ibarra, accused of killing …
Police are looking for a Georgia man who failed to show up to meet US Navy recruiters to begin boot camp earlier this week. Darius Burden is described as 6 feet tall and about 171 pounds with short black hair and brown eyes. Burden’s family reported they were contacted by the recruiter when he didn’t …
Police are questioning a ‘person of interest’ after the body of a woman with “visible injuries” was found at the intramural fields of the University of Georgia in Athens. UGA Police Chief Jeff Clark said, “The victim was not a student at the University of Georgia, but the victim was a student at another school.” …
A toddler is dead in Georgia after a father beat the baby’s grandmother and took the child overnight. Police were called to a home in Macon just after midnight and found the woman, who was taken to a hospital for treatment while they set out to find the man, WMAZ reported. The found the car …
A Georgia man has been charged with murder after a toddler shot himself in the face. DeKalb County police said that Antoine Jordan left his gun loaded and unsecured, and the 3-year-old boy found it, WSB reported. When officers arrived at the home at about 7 a.m. Saturday, they learned that the child’s mother had …
A Georgia coroner has ruled the death of a baby decapitated during birth a homicide. Treveon Taylor died from a “fracture dislocation with complete transection [to the] upper cervical spine and spinal cord,” the Clayton County Medical Examiner’s Office announced on Tuesday, according to WANF. The medical examiner said a problem with the baby’s shoulders …
A 34-year-old Georgia woman has been charged with murder in the death of her 8-year-old stepdaughter. Natiela Barros has been charged with felony murder, malice murder, aggravated assault, and first degree cruelty to children in the death of Sayra Barros on Tuesday, Gwinnett County Police said. The girl’s father, Cledir Barros, was charged with second …
A Georgia sex offender was shot and killed early Friday morning by law enforcement just off Interstate 75 in Tennessee after he kidnapped an 11-year-old girl in Knoxville. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued an Endangered Child Alert Thursday evening, saying the girl was last seen on Tuesday. The agency later identified the suspect as …
A mother has been charged with murder in the death of her 3-year-old child after she walked into the Georgia woods with her two young children around midnight last week — while the state was in the midst of a deep freeze — and didn’t seek help until nearly noon the next day. According to …
A Georgia mother of four was found dead in her home last week, and a suspect has been arrested. Cobb County police have not identified the suspect or said how Melinda Jolly died, WSB reported. According to a GoFundMe, Jolly moved to Georgia from California in 2019 after her then-husband died from cancer. Family had …
A man missing in central Georgia since late December has been found inside the chimney of a Macon home. Anthony Rumplik, 43, was renting the home where his body was found, WMAZ reported. Rumplik, from Ohio, was driving through Georgia last year on his way to Florida when his vehicle broke down. He decided to …
