Crash victim identified, assault suspect arrested

The man killed in an Elbert County motorcycle crash has been identified as Jesse Campbell: he was 39 years old, from Bowman. Elberton Police are investigating.

The Hall County Sheriff's Office says a woman who pointed a shotgun at a man during a domestic disturbance remains in the Hall County jail, being held there without bond: there are aggravated assault charges for 32 year-old Samantha Roper.

A pedestrian is struck and killed on I-85 in DeKalb County. It happened on 85 near the Tucker-Chamblee exit. DeKalb County Police are investigating. 

A 19 year-old woman in Clayton County is shot in the head and was, at last report, hospitalized in critical condition: Clayton County Police the teenager was trying to rob a man at an apartment complex in Riverdale.

Police in Dalton are thinking the case of one motel guest shooting and killing another on might have been a case of self-defense. The Whitfield County case is still under investigation.

A Georgia inmate has been recaptured more than two months after he escaped from a roadside work detail. The Georgia Department of Corrections says Tommy Morton was caught in Coffee County. He walked away from a road crew in Carroll County. Morton is doing a 10-year prison stretch for his conviction on marijuana charges.

We have today the names of the two men whose bodies were found over the weekend in Ben Hill County: the GBI says 42 year-old Kevin Kind and 40 year-old Cendrick King were brothers. Cendrick Kind’s body was found in his home; his older brother’s body was discovered in a car was in Fitzgerald.

A driver who crashed a car while trying to outrun Lowndes County Sheriff’s deputies is dead: he wrecked near Valdosta. Two other people were seriously injured.