A man in Georgia faces life in prison without parole plus 15 additional years for shooting a man six times and killing him rather than repaying his son’s debt. According to Channel 2 Action News, 49-year-old Joe Rayton was convicted of murder and other charges in connection with the May 20, 2016, shooting death of […]
A former manager for a Georgia criminal justice agency has filed a lawsuit alleging she was harassed and later fired because she’s an African-American woman. According to reports, the former Division Director Nicole Jenkins was targeted by Jay Neal, the executive director for the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council. Jenkins’ lawsuit reportedly states she was falsely […]
UPDATE: 10:28 p.m. The Georgia attorney general’s office said in a statement that 52-year-old Scotty Garnell Morrow was pronounced dead at 9:38 p.m. Thursday following an injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson. ATLANTA (AP) — A man who killed his ex-girlfriend and another woman nearly 25 years ago is scheduled to be […]
A Georgia man was driving quickly to meet his wife, who was in labor. But according to reports, he took things a bit too far in his heightened emotional state. Kristopher Mosley, 26, is accused of pointing a handgun at two drivers during road-rage incidents, Cobb deputies told Channel 2 Action News. In 911 calls […]
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, when Darien, GA Police Chief Donnie Howard found out his 16-year-old daughter, who is white, had a black boyfriend, he said he became “physically ill.” According to reports, Howard rarely censored himself when discussing race. A federal discrimination lawsuit was previously filed by an African-American former officer. Korone Robinson, a former […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams says she will not run for a U.S. Senate seat in 2020, dimming her party’s hopes of a Senate majority and starting anew the speculation about her long-term political future after her unsuccessful run for governor last year catapulted her to national acclaim. Abrams, a 45-year-old who came within 60,000 […]
In a town called Kennesaw, Georgia homeowners are required to own a gun and ammunition. The bill passed in 1982 in direct response to a mass shooting in Oregon. Representative Erica Thomas says that bill was put in motion by the same man who passed the heartbeat abortion bill. Georgia’s heartbeat abortion bill states that […]
A Tennessee woman will spend 12 years in prison after leaving a stolen gun in a Georgia hotel room and trying to cover up what happened when her 5-year-old nephew got it and shot a 3-year-old in the mouth. On May 28, Tashia Lenette Woods reportedly left the weapon, which was stolen from a gun […]
As a result of the hit-and-run that happened in front of her home, LaDerihanna Holmes suffered a fractured skull, broken pelvic bone, several cuts and other internal injuries.
In the weeks before George Young was shot to death on his front porch, Harvey Timothy Lee was searching for snake venom and black widow spiders online, reports The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Lee, 39, and Tia Young, 43, are on trial in her husband’s killing. The two were having an affair at the time of George […]
A Georgia man pleaded guilty to statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl on Halloween night 2017 and was recently sentenced to three years in prison. According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution he was sentenced to several years below what the state recommends for the crime. Dale Antonio Davis, 50, was reportedly arrested in December 2017, months […]
A Georgia science teacher is reportedly facing criminal charges after allegedly pulling a middle school student out of class by her hair. Channel 2 Action News reports, an eighth-grade teacher at Henry County Middle School, Tracy Parham, was ordered to turn herself in to the Henry County jail Friday. The student, 14-year-old Sequoia McMillian, told […]
