Georgia

A Georgia man was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to strangling his 19-year-old girlfriend to death 2½ years ago, Channel 2 Action News reports. Jury selection just started Monday in the case of 21-year-old Elijah Ramoutar on charges of malice murder, felony murder and aggravated assault. “In the middle of the […]

A volleyball referee burst into happy tears when a group 10 teams and their families surprised him with a car and $2,000 in gift card donations. Lemuel Buster, has been refereeing in Paulding County, Georgia with the recreation department since it opened last year. He walked out of the gym after a game earlier this […]

One of the nine alleged gang members accused in the 2016 murders of two children as they slept in their Georgia home, was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole plus 22 years. According to Channel 2 Action News, Jamon Bynum, 28, was one of several men who stormed […]

A Georgia man was arrested on Tuesday (May 21) in Tennesee on an outstanding warrant theft by deception and has been tagged as a so-called serial swindler. John Martin Hill allegedly stole $80,000 from a woman he just met via the dating website Match.com. Patch.com reports: Late yesterday evening, John Martin Hill, 35, was booked […]

A 3-year-old Georgia girl died after suffering what police described as a “heinous sexual assault and beating.” According to local news station WALB, Janiyah Armanie Brooks was unresponsive when Albany police responded to her home on May 13. She had been severely beaten with injuries to her head, ribs and hands, according to police. She […]

Police in Georgia charged a man with felony murder after he allegedly sold heroin that led to the overdose death of a 22-year-old man. According to AJC.com, 28-year-old Antoin Thornton was arrested last Thursday, about two months after he sold heroin to the man. The victim, who was not identified, reportedly overdosed on the heroin, […]

A 17-year-old is accused of raping a jogger in an Atlanta neighborhood, two days after he bonded out of jail on a theft charge. According to The Atlanta Journal Constitution, D’Shawn Garrison faces six felonies after the two incidents. On Sunday around 4 a.m., officers reportedly spotted a vehicle that was reported as stolen at […]

An Atlanta woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to assaulting her 94-year-old mother with a hammer, AJC.com reported. Sandy Elaine Mathis, 56, reportedly pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated assault and aggravated battery after breaking both of her mother’s hands in December. For the last 20 years Mathis and her mother, Willie Monroe, shared a home. The […]

The Georgia Bureau of Investigations is investigating after an inmate at the Fulton County Jail was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Tyrique Jameal Tookes died after being in jail for nearly two months. Tookes was reportedly being held on an $8,000 bond after being charged with theft by […]

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 […]