A man believed to be Christopher James Wallace, 38, and an unidentified woman were removed from the rubble of an apartment and pronounced dead at 11:55 p.m. Friday, Lee County Coroner Bill Harris said.
Ronnie Brooks Jr., 24, was pronounced dead at 1:40 p.m. Friday in the intensive care unit at Piedmont Columbus Regional midtown campus, Coroner Buddy Bryan said.
Lewis Triester, 72, is charged with one count each of failing to yield and misdemeanor homicide by vehicle second degree in the death of James Gibson of Fortson.
Six Macon, Georgia teens were shot and killed and twice as many were arrested on murder charges since the 2018 Parkland school shooting. Bibb County schools and the district attorney try to help students.
Here’s a list of kids and teens who were killed in gun-related incidents since 2008 in Columbus, Georgia. The gun victims died from accidental shootings, murder-suicides, domestic abuse and other gun violence.
Half of Columbus’ 16 gun-related deaths among teenagers involved domestic abuse in the past decade. Since the Parkland school shooting in Florida, three teens were killed locally and 51 in Georgia.
A Columbus jury found Roger Thomas not guilty of murder Monday in the 2015 fatal shooting of his half-brother during a birthday party at Thomas’ 435 Bernard Drive apartment.
A jury has reached a verdict in the murder trial of a Columbus man accused of killing his half-brother during what he said was a shootout at his birthday party.
Roger Thomas testified Tuesday in his murder trial and recounted shooting his half-brother during an alleged gunfight at Thomas’ birthday party. This video is an excerpt of his testimony regarding the final moments leading to his pulling the trigger.
Fletcher Lewayne Tolbert, 35, was found on the porch about 7:30 a.m. CST after residents reported hearing what sounded like several gunshot about 11 p.m. Tuesday but didn’t report them to authorities.
More than two months after possible human remains were found on a trail off Victory Drive, tests from GBI crime lab have determined a short statured man died of a gunshot wound, Columbus police said Wednesday.
The driver of a city vehicle pulled from a driveway on Jan. 31 before it collided with a Fortson man’s Mercedes Benz on River Road, Columbus police said in a report on the crash.
The city’s outdoor warning sirens went off about 9 a.m. Wednesday as part of Severe Weather Preparedness Week for the state of Georgia, the Columbus Fire and Emergency Medical Services said.
Defense attorney Stacey Jackson said in his opening statement Tuesday morning he feels the evidence will show his client Roger Lee Thomas acted in self defense in the December 2015 fatal shooting of Demetrius Williams.
A Columbus jury found Roger Thomas not guilty of murder Monday in the 2015 fatal shooting of his half-brother during a birthday party at Thomas’ 435 Bernard Drive apartment.
