Amanda is a producer and anchor for 41NBC News at Daybreak and 41Today. She comes to Macon from Watertown, NY where she was a reporter, fill in producer and anchor for three years at WWNY.
She covered everything from hundred year old birthdays to the shooting death of a New York State Trooper. She also earned a Syracuse Press Club Award for her feature story A Cheer for Keslie, about a young woman with down syndrome who joins her high school cheer team and is accepted and loved by her squad.
Amanda is originally from Brookfield, Connecticut, a small town in the western part of the state.
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MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) Bibb County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a shooting that killed one teen and left another teen in the hospital.
Authorities identified the 16-year-old who died as Elijah Jones and the 17-year-old as Tyrin Riggins.
Deputies say a black Kia Sorento reportedly pulled into the apartment complex and stopped in front of building “G”.
Deputies say when they arrived at the scene they found Riggins with a gunshot wound to the leg. They also found Elijah with a gunshot wound to the upper torso.
Bibb County coroner Leon Jones says the incident happened around 1:45 p.m. Monday at Sandy Springs Apartments on Bloomfield Drive.