An 18-year-old south Georgia man has been charged in the brutal stabbing death of 9-year-old Alazia “Ally” Johnson earlier this week in Tifton. Semaj Antonio Moss was arrested Saturday in Lowndes County, about 50 miles south of Tifton, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced late Saturday. Moss has been charged with malice, murder, felony murder, …
Remains found in north Georgia nearly 40 years ago have been identified and linked to Samuel Little, described by the FBI as “the most prolific serial killer in US history.” The 30-year-old woman found in Dade County on September 28, 1981, was Patricia Parker, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced. Little, 80, is a suspect …
A well-known Atlanta area chiropractor was arrested Wednesday on a sexual battery charge after one of his patients said that he sexually assaulted her in his office last month. Rashad Sanford, founder and CEO of Atlanta Spine Doctors, was arrested by Sandy Springs Police and booked into the Fulton County Jail, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. …
A pregnant Georgia teenager hasn’t been seen in more than a week, and police in Columbus are asking for the public’s help in finding her. Escreanna Richmond, 16, was last seen at an 8th Avenue apartment building, in the north end of the city, at about midnight on September 28. Since then, no one has …
Actor Thomas Jefferson Byrd, who appeared in several movies by acclaimed director Spike Lee and was nominated for a Tony award in 2003, was shot and killed Saturday in Atlanta, Lee himself posted on Instagram. Atlanta Police officers found Byrd unresponsive, with multiple gunshot wounds in the back, in southwest Atlanta at about 1:45 a.m. …
The man who pleaded guilty to bombings at women’s clinics in Alabama and Georgia, a lesbian bar in Atlanta, and the 1996 Olympic Games is pushing to have his sentences vacated, WBMA reports. Eric Robert Rudolph, now 54, filed a hand-written motion in federal court in Alabama claiming that his conviction for the 1998 bombing …
A woman found shot to death in a car outside a church in Dacula, Georgia, early Wednesday was killed in self-defense after trying to rob a homeowner, Gwinnett County police said Thursday. Officers called to the home at around 3 a.m. for shots fired found Azahni Ellis, 27, in her car, which stopped at the …
A 26-year-old parolee is back in jail in Georgia after he shot and killed an ex-girlfriend, wounded her 4-year-old child and grandmother, and shot another woman while trying to rob a Waffle House. Karl Anthony Jordan allegedly shot the ex-girlfriend Wednesday night in Hampton, Georgia. She reportedly died in the hospital on Thursday, the Atlanta …
A Tennessee couple and their adult son have been indicted on child sex abuse charges after Georgia investigators tipped their Tennessee counterparts to the case. Jeffrey Wade Howell, 58; Glenda Sue Howell, 61; and Donnie Wayne Jackson, 47, were jailed last week, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday. Jeffrey Howell was indicted in …
The body of a missing middle Georgia woman was found in “a little hangout area” near a creek Wednesday, and her boyfriend has been arrested for her murder. LaTorra “Torra” Michelle Tillman’s mother, Lillian Cole, reported her missing earlier this month, but nearly two-weeks of searching turned up nothing until friends went down by the …
It’s been two months since mom of two Natalie Jones vanished on her way home to Georgia from a Fourth of July party in Alabama, and her worried mother says she’s “running on faith.” “Not knowing — this is killing me,” Elaine Gordan told the Newnan Times Herald. “I just want to come up on …
A 15-year-old boy was arrested late last month for allegedly killing two men in two separate shootings that occurred three weeks apart. Police told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the teen was arrested on August 12, after an investigation revealed he was involved in a July 13 shooting that left Donte Billingsley, 29, dead and another …
