Georgia

Missing
May 23, 2022

Missing: 18-Year-Old With Autism Walks Away From His Hotel Room

Georgia police are looking for an 18-year-old man with autism who walked away from his hotel room Sunday afternoon. Carlos Stiven Diaz-Barrios is believed to have been wearing blue jeans and a navy blue long sleeved shirt (pictured), Marietta police said. His mother said that her son likes to walk around the Motel 6 property, …

Tara Grinsted smiling, standing in front of cotton field
Trials
May 20, 2022

Jury Deliberates Whether Ryan Duke Killed Former Georgia Beauty Queen

A jury is deliberating the case of a middle Georgia man accused of killing a popular Irwin County High School history teacher in a botched robbery and burning her body in a pecan orchard. Ryan Duke’s attorney argued that her client didn’t kill Tara Grinstead, 30, but instead it was another man, who has already …

Missing
May 15, 2022

MISSING: Georgia Woman Last Seen on Her Own Front Porch

Police in Winder, Georgia, have asked for help finding a 44-year-old woman last seen on her front porch on Friday. Investigators say Heather Anne Shackelford hasn’t been seen since about 5 p.m. Shackelford is about 5 feet 7 inches tall and 160 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes. It’s not known what she was …

Child sex crimes
May 13, 2022

Georgia Man Forces Girl Into Park Men’s Room, Rapes Her: Court Docs

A Georgia police department has arrested a man they say kidnapped a raped and child at a popular park on Mother’s Day. WXIA reports that Austin Stovall has been charged with rape, aggravated sexual battery, child molestation, false imprisonment, kidnapping and first degree cruelty to children by the Kennesaw Police Department. The department did not …

child endangerment
May 10, 2022

Georgia Woman Opens Fire on School Bus en Route to School

A 57-year-old Georgia woman caused havoc Monday morning when she opened fire at a Gwinnett County school bus carrying four kindergartners. Celeste Michele Saunders was taken into the custody and charged with four counts of first degree cruelty to children, five counts of aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, …

Hot car deaths
May 4, 2022

Baby Left in Car Dies After Father Is Arrested

An 8-month-old baby girl has died after she was left in a parked car for hours when her father was arrested. Police in Snellville, Georgia, said that Davied Japez McCorry Whatley, 20, came into the police department at about 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday to speak with a custodian, WAGA reported. When officers learned that Whatley …

Murder
May 1, 2022

Convicted Felon Charged With Wife’s Murder Initially Reported As Suicide

A Georgia man has been charged with the death of his wife last month after initially investigating the shooting as a suicide. Deputies responding to a 911 call about a suicide on March 27 found the body of Shyanne Schroeder with a gunshot wound to the head. “The responding deputies got the feeling that something …

Shooting
April 22, 2022

13-Year-Old Charged in Shooting of 11-Year-Old at Georgia Skating Rink

Police just outside Atlanta say they have arrested a 13-year-old boy in the shooting of an 11-year-old outside a skating rink earlier this month. D’Mari Johnson is still in critical condition after he was shot in the head at the Golden Glide skating rink on April 10, according to WSB. DeKalb County police said earlier …

Murder
April 20, 2022

Florida Man Charged With Killing Georgia Aunt and Uncle, Fleeing to Home State

Authorities arrested a man on Monday believed to have killed his aunt and uncle in Georgia and then fled to his former home in Florida. Jordan Kyle Lemaster, 34, has been charged with aggravated assault and murder in the deaths of 70-year-old Pamela Ann Williams and 74-year-old Ricky Howard Williams, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation …

AMBER Alert
April 19, 2022

Amber Alert: 4-Month-Old Boy Abducted in East Georgia

Police in eastern Georgia are looking for a 4-month-old boy and a man they say abducted him.. Officials have issued a Levi’s Call, Georgia’s version of an Amber Alert, for A’hmaud Griffin, last seen on Monday in Waynesboro. A’hmaud was wearing a white onesie and is believed to be in the company of Travis Griffin, …