A Georgia man kidnapped his ex-girlfriend from her job in Fayette County Sunday night and then shot her to death when police caught up with him in the next county over. Investigators have not released the name of the 19-year-old victim but said 20-year-old Cameron Ja’Michael Hopkins was charged with kidnapping and aggravated assault by …
The man accused of killing four people in a suburban Atlanta neighborhood Saturday morning was killed during a shootout with police Sunday afternoon. “The monster is dead,” said Henry County Sheriff Reginald B. Scandrett during a press conference on Sunday. Law enforcement located Andre Longmore at about 1:30 p.m., according to WANF. He tried to …
At least four people — three men and a woman — were shot and killed Saturday morning in a subdivision south of Atlanta, and authorities are searching for a suspect they consider to be armed and dangerous. Neither Hampton Police Chief James Turner nor Henry County Sheriff Reginald Scandrett provided few details about the shooting …
An hours-long hostage situation-turned-standoff in suburban Atlanta ended ended with a man dead and the woman who’d been held against her will safe. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said that a 911 caller told dispatchers at about 3:30 a.m. that he was texting with a resident of the Lithonia home who said he had locked …
A Georgia woman has been charged with abandoning her newborn in a plastic bag and leaving her for dead in the woods four years ago. The infant, dubbed “Baby India” by hospital staff, survived the ordeal and is now “happy, healthy and in a safe place,” Forsyth County Sheriff Ron H. Freeman said at a …
An 84-year-old Georgia county commissioner has been arrested on child molestation and sexual battery charges. Effingham County Commissioner Reginald “Reggie” Loper was arrested and released on bail on Wednesday Documents obtained by WTOC revealed that a teenage victim and her mother reported multiple sexual assaults to the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office on January 5, the …
A Georgia couple has been charged with trying to starve their 10-year-old son to death. A neighbor found the boy wandering alone in his neighborhood on Friday after he escaped the home. Griffin police reported that he was barefoot and hungry and begged to not be taken back home, WAGA reported. “As a mother, I …
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has identified the remains of a woman found dead on a coastal hunting club last December and arrested her husband for murder. Mindi Mebane Kassotis, 40, was living in Savannah at the time of her death with her husband, Nicholas James Kassotis, who also went by the name Nicholas Killian …
A Georgia mother has been charged with murder when her toddler daughter died after being pulled from a pond in an office park. Sandy Springs police put out an alert for 22-month-old Nirvana Oliver Thursday night after they were called to a parking deck at the office park for a woman acting oddly. Sgt. Matt …
A car belonging to a North Carolina couple wanted for child abuse was found abandoned 260 miles away in a mobile home park in Georgia. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said that Brandon Augustine, 24, and Mildred Chestnut, 23, brought their 4-month-old son to Atrium Hospital on March 20 and said they’d been in a minor accident, WXIA …
A southwest Georgia man went on a rampage Thursday morning, killing his mother, grandmother, and another woman before committing suicide. Investigators have not released the names of those involved, pending notifications, but Colquitt County Coroner Verlyn Brock said the 26-year-old gunman’s 50-year-old mother and 74-year-old grandmother were shot to death in their Moultrie homes, which …
Nineteen-year-old Trent Lehrkamp is hospitalized in coastal Georgia, recovering from what friends and family say was a horrific hazing incident a week ago that left him barely breathing and on a ventilator. And police say it appears it wasn’t the first time Lehrkamp was victimized by his torments, most of whom appear to be juveniles, …
