
Jozsef Papp
Crime and Public Safety Reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Crime and Public Safety @ajc | Georgia Southern 🦅 | Former @TheGeorgeAnne, @AUG_Chronicle| 🇪🇨 | Opinions are my own |Tips? [email protected] | he/him
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1 week ago |
ajc.com | Jozsef Papp
A plea could be coming soon for the Apalachee High School shooting suspect after his defense attorneys requested a hearing on Tuesday. The request made on behalf of Colt Gray, the 15-year-old indicted on 55 charges in the Sept. 4 shooting including four counts of murder, would likely result in a guilty plea, attorneys told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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2 weeks ago |
ajc.com | Rosana Hughes |Jozsef Papp
Two men were convicted Wednesday night on charges related to the murder of a 60-year-old man near the Atlanta Beltline in Inman Park. Brandon Williams and Demetrice Ross were found guilty by a Fulton County jury, just hours after deliberations started, in the death of Thomas Arnold, who was shot the night of Feb. 25, 2022 near Elizabeth Street and Bernina Avenue, not far from his Poncey-Highland home. They were not immediately sentenced by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall.
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2 weeks ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Alexis Stevens |Jozsef Papp
Share But two days later, when Columbia deputies attempted to stop Montgomery, he fired shots, killing one and critically injuring a second, according to investigators. Elicia Montgomery’s protective order petition outlines several instances in which James Montgomery allegedly threatened her, including burning her home. “He owns firearms and previously threated (sic) to use them,” the petition states. Montgomery had been scheduled to appear in court May 15.
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2 weeks ago |
ajc.com | Alexis Stevens |Jozsef Papp
The man accused of shooting two east Georgia deputies, killing one, had been ordered to surrender all of his weapons two days earlier, according to Columbia County court records. A protective order filed by James Blake Montgomery’s estranged wife and signed Thursday, shows he was ordered to stay away from Elicia Montgomery, her children from a previous marriage and their home. “Turn over weapons to CCSO and not possess until further order,” the protective order states.
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2 weeks ago |
ajc.com | Jozsef Papp |Shaddi Abusaid
Clayton County Sheriff Levon Allen has publicly blamed his agency’s decades-old technology and poor training for last month’s mistaken release of a convicted killer, but a political rival says the blunder shows Allen is running his office “like a kid in a Toys ‘R’ Us.” Allen’s office came into the spotlight in recent weeks for all the wrong reasons: Kathan Guzman, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his girlfriend, spent two weeks on the lam after he was mistakenly released from the...
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Georgia school shooting suspect may be gearing up for guilty plea. Attorneys for Colt Gray asked Judge Primm to schedule a plea hearing for possibly October. @ajc https://t.co/992efbJItv

The Clayton County Sheriff's Office mistakenly released a convicted killer. For about two weeks, they didn't know they had. It is one of the latest issues in the troubled department previously headed by convicted former sheriff Victor Hill. @ajc https://t.co/WXFXgqV8SK