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Four individuals face murder charges under indictments returned by a Bulloch County grand jury earlier this month. The total number of homicide cases now awaiting court action because of violent deaths that occurred in Bulloch County, including Statesboro, is 15.
That count, which includes some unindicted cases and even some for which arrests have been made since the grand jury met, is included in a total of 27 homicide cases pending in the four-county Ogeechee Judicial Circuit, said District Attorney Daphne Totten. Effingham County has seven homicide cases pending, Screven County has three, and Jenkins County has one ho
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A domestic violence suspect was critically wounded Tuesday in a police-involved shooting in Millen.
The U.S. Marshal Service requested the Georgia Bureau of Investigation look into the incident where a suspect sought on warrants survived a single gunshot wound.
U.S. Marshals Service agents and Millen Police officers were in the area of Herndon and Williams streets in Millen around 3:44 p.m. Tuesday, searching for Larry Jackson, 29, “who had active warrants for events that took place on the previous date during a domestic dispute,” said Statesboro Region 5 GBI Special Agent-in-Charge John Durden. ”Officers located Jackson near Herndon Street after a foot chase . During the confrontation, one of the Deputy U.S. Marshals fired his weapon, striking Jackson.�