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Sonny Kim Murders Sister In Georgia

Sonny Kim was a sixteen year old teen killer from Georgia who would murder his sister Ashley Kim

According to court documents Sonny Kim would fatally shoot his twenty three year old sister Ashley Kim in Georgia. Kim would also attempt to murder his stepfather however the magazine was empty

Sonny Kim would later tell authorities his plan was to kill his sister, mother and stepfather

Sonny Kim would be arrested, convicted and would be sentenced to life in prison with a possibility of parole after thirty years

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James Brazzell said Sonny Kim was not his normal self the night he shot his sister eight times and killed her in their Martinez home just six days before Christmas in 2016.

“His eyes were black. He was unfocused. He was not there,” said Brazzell, Kim’s stepfather. “His expression, his voice – everything about him was not Sonny. It was not the Sonny we all know.”

Kim, 19, pleaded guilty by reason of mental illness to felony murder, malice murder, two counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and aggravated assault on Friday. Judge James Blanchard sentenced him to life in prison on the murder counts with a possibility of parole, plus 20 years for the possession charges and five years for the assault. He will be eligible for parole in 30 years

Kim was 16 when he killed his 23-year-old sister, Ashley Kim, just as Brazzell and Kim’s mother were getting into bed. Kim tried to shoot Brazzell when he entered the living room but could not load the magazine into the gun. Kim later told investigators he planned to kill his mother, stepfather and sister and commit suicide.

Family members including Kim’s mother, Nicci Brazzell, strongly opposed statements from Assistant District Attorney Ricky Coates that Kim killed his sister out of jealousy. She graduated from Evans High School and was attending college in Colorado, and she was home for Christmas break when she was killed.

Kim was mostly home-schooled and completed high school at age 15 and was attending Georgia Military College, according to Augusta Chronicle archives. While his sister was outgoing, Kim was more reserved and did not enjoy attention.

“Sonny loved his sister more than he loved anybody,” his stepfather said. “He loved his mother and loved myself, but his sister Ashley was his favorite person.”

Nicci Brazzell left the courtroom several times, and family members consoled her as she watched her son stand before the judge. She said that on the night of the murder, she believes she was looking at something “dark and evil” in her son that she has never seen before or since.

“I would love to take my son home now,” Brazzell said through tears. “I would just love to give him a hug and a kiss because I know that he’s not a murderer.

Dr. Allison Paganelli, a forensic psychologist who has been working with Kim since April 2017, said that after interviews with Kim and his mother, multiple tests and reviewing records, there are still many unanswered questions, including why he would kill his sister.

“While Sonny was able to remember these events, he also described that it was like watching himself or another person that looked like him doing those things,” she said.

After watching his interview with investigators, which included multiple instances of Kim talking to himself and to unseen people, Kim told Paganelli that it was like looking into a parallel dimension.

Paganelli said that from her experience with Kim, he meets the criteria for an autism spectrum disorder that usually begins to exhibit symptoms in early childhood. A person with the disorder has problems socializing with others and expressing emotions.

Kim also has a history of being exposed to traumatic events because of his biological father, including being neglected. Because of the psychosis episodes in the interrogation video and Kim’s young age, Paganelli believes his psychological issues will grow into something bigger. Kim was also conducting self-harm by banging his head against the wall and window, biting his arm and breaking his tooth at the Regional Youth Detention Center.

Because of Kim’s guilty plea by reason of mental illness, he will receive psychiatric care while serving his sentence.

https://www.augustachronicle.com/story/news/2019/07/12/columbia-county-teen-pleads-guilty-to-sisters-murder/4702485007/

Nicolle Sanchez-Peralta Sentenced To 65 Years In Prison

Nicolle Sanchez-Peralta is a teen killer from Georgia who just found out that she will spend the next sixty five years in prison before she is released

According to court documents Nicolle Sanchez-Peralta convinced her friend 15-year-old Sanaa Amenhotep to get in a car with her and two young men Treveon J. Nelson and Jaylen S. Wilson. The fifteen year old girl was driven to a remote location where she would be murdered

There was a massive search when Sanaa Amenhotep went missing and three weeks later the teens body would be found in a shallow grave

Nicole Sanchez-Peralta, Treveon J. Nelson and Jaylen S. Wilson were arrested and charged with kidnapping and murder. Treveon J. Nelson and Jaylen S. Wilson would plead guilty to an assortment of charges. Nicole Sanchez-Peralta would go to trial and be convicted

Treveon J. Nelson and Jaylen S. Wilson both received sixty years in prison. There is no parole for any of the guilty in this case

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Three former Columbia-area residents were handed lengthy prison sentences for the kidnapping and murder of 15-year-old Sanaa Amenhotep. Nicolle Sanchez-Peralta, Treveon J. Nelson and Jaylen S. Wilson were sentenced Tuesday for abducting and killing Amenhotep, who vanished from outside her home in Columbia, South Carolina, in April 2021. She was found three weeks later in a shallow grave in Lexington County.

The murder of Amenhotep, who was remembered for her bright and bold personality, and the subsequent arrest of three other teens, who were friends of Amenhotep’s, sent shock waves through the Midlands and galvanized activists in the Black community who criticized law enforcement’s response to her disappearance.

“The abduction and murder of Sanaa Amenhotep shocked the conscience of our community. A crime of this nature will not be tolerated,” said 11th Circuit Solicitor, Rick Hubbard, who prosecuted the case along with his deputy, Suzanne Mayes. “Our hearts are with the family of Sanaa and we pray that this conclusion will bring some measure of justice.”

Nicolle Sanchez-Peralta, 19, was found guilty of kidnapping and murder following a trial in May. She was sentenced to 65 years. Nelson, 20, and Wilson, 20, pleaded guilty early this year to charges of murder, kidnapping, criminal conspiracy, and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. Both were sentenced to 60 years in prison The sentences must be served in their entirety and do not allow for parole. “I am sending a message,” stated Judge Debra McCaslin, a circuit court judge. “Our youth is killing our youth.

Testimony presented during the trial of Nicolle Sanchez-Peralta established that Amenhotep was beaten and was shot 14 times at the crime scene. The defendants buried her body in a shallow grave. “This young lady with so much potential and promise was brutally tortured and killed by her peers,” Hubbard said. Wilson and Sanchez-Peralta were under the age of 18 at the time of the murder. Amenhotep’s body was found on April 29, 2021, in a wooded area of Batesburg-Leesville, near Interstate 20. Her family mobilized a widespread effort to find her, calling on law enforcement, the press and social media to help find their daughter.

Amenhotep’s father, Sharif Amenhotep traveled from New Jersey to Columbia to organize searches of abandoned hotels and canvassed gas stations and other businesses looking for his daughter.

In a statement released to the press, Hubbard thanked both the Lexington and Richland County Sheriff’s Departments for their assistance in the investigation. But following Amenhotep’s abduction, many in Columbia’s Black community were critical of what they characterized as a slow response from law enforcement. “We need to have more accountability and more community, not just as a Black people but as human beings,” said Amenhotep’s mother, Saleemeh Graham-Flemming. “If it was just me, my daughter might have still been missing.”

Activists at the time called on the Richland County Sheriff’s Department and law enforcement generally to show more urgency when Black children are reported missing and to treat these cases as abductions when parents say they believe it’s a kidnapping case. Since her daughter’s death, Graham-Flemming has started the “Cakie Scholarship,” named after Amenhotep’s nickname. It raises money to send at-risk youths to trade school on a full scholarship.

Andre Longmore Wanted For 4 Murders

Andre Longmore is a wanted man in Georgia for the murders of four people

According to police reports authorities believe that Andre Longmore is responsible for the murders of four people in Hampton Georgia. Information is a bit brief as police have only identified the victims as three males and one female and that they are investigating four separate crime areas

Andre Longmore is believed to be driving a 2017 black GMC Acadia with license plates DHF 756 which is not his own vehicle

If you have any information on Andre Longmore whereabouts you are asked to call 911

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Law enforcement is searching for a man accused of fatally shooting four people in Hampton, Georgia, Saturday morning, according to authorities.

The Henry County Sheriff’s Office identified the suspect as 40-year-old Andre Longmore. Authorities believe the suspect is driving a 2017 black GMC Acadia with license plates DHF 756, which is not his own vehicle.

The first call about the shooting came in around 10:45 a.m. ET, Hampton police Chief James Turner said at a Saturday afternoon news conference.

The incident happened in an area close to the Dogwood Lakes subdivision in Hampton – about 29 miles south of Atlanta – an area that features lake-front homes and a nearby baptist church.

Turner said the victims were all adults, three men and one woman. He added authorities were not releasing the names of the victims to allow the families to be notified.

Since the shooting, “all hands have been on deck,” Turner said.

Henry County Sheriff Reginald Scandrett said an arrest warrant has been issued for Longmore on murder charges.

Addressing the suspect, he said, “We will hunt you down in any hole you may be residing in and bring you to custody.”

He added the sheriff’s office is offering a $10,000 reward for any information leading to Longmore’s arrest. “The suspect is known to be armed and dangerous,” Scandrett said.

The sheriff’s office is working with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation as well as police departments across the Atlanta metro area to track down the suspect, according to Scandrett.

Turner said investigators “do not have a motive at this time” for the killings. There are at least “four crime scenes that we’re actively investigating,” he said. He added that police do not believe Longmore is related to the victims but authorities are “still investigating.”

At the news conference, Hampton Mayor Ann Tarpley said “today is a sad and somber occasion” and vowed the person responsible would be held responsible and “brought to justice.”

“We ask that you lift up the families and the victims in your prayers, your thoughts, and that you give them the privacy that they may need to overcome this horrific tragedy,” she went on. “We have full confidence in our law enforcement that they will perform their duties and bring the suspect to justice.”

Officials advised the public to avoid the area near the incident.

The shooting is one of at least 382 mass shootings in the United States in 2023, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The archive, like CNN, defines a mass shooting as one that injured or killed four or more people, not including the shooter

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/15/us/hampton-georgia-mass-shooting/index.html

Andre Longmore Dead Following Police Shootout

Andre Longmore, the man accused of fatally shooting four people in Hampton, Georgia, Saturday morning, was killed in a shootout with police, according to Henry County Sheriff Reginald Scandrett.

During a Sunday news conference, Scandrett announced authorities tracked the suspect and confronted him.

“The suspect returned fire and hit the ground running,” the sheriff said, adding authorities chased him down and “he produced a handgun again.”

Authorities then engaged in another gun fight with Longmore, leaving him dead and two officers injured, Scandrett said. One of the officers is severely injured and was life-flighted to a hospital.

“He was hit in the rear of his back,” the sheriff said. “He is conscious, breathing and talking.”

The sheriff called it an “absolute honor” to serve with those officers and said those in the community “can breathe a little bit easier, sleep a little better tonight. This monster is off of our streets.”

Longmore is accused of fatally shooting four people, sparking a manhunt across Atlanta as police departments across the metro region worked to track him down.

The mass shooting was reported around 10:45 a.m. ET Saturday, Hampton police chief James Turner said at a Saturday afternoon news conference.

The incident happened in an area close to the Dogwood Lakes subdivision in Hampton – about 29 miles south of Atlanta – an area that features lake-front homes and a nearby baptist church.

Police identified the victims Sunday as three men and one woman who were all in their sixties: Scott Leavitt, 67; his wife, Shirley Leavitt, 66; Steve Blizzard, 65; and Ronald Jeffers, 66. Turner said all four lived in the subdivision.

Authorities said that suspect, who also lived in the Dogwood Lakes community, stole the vehicle of one of the victims, Blizzard.

Authorities were offering a $10,000 reward for any information leading to Longmore’s arrest. “The suspect is known to be armed and dangerous,” Scandrett said Saturday, vowing to “hunt” Longmore down.

Police on Saturday said a motive wasn’t clear and said they didn’t believe Longmore was related to any of the victims.

On Saturday, Hampton Mayor Ann Tarpley said “today is a sad and somber occasion” and vowed the person responsible would be held responsible and “brought to justice.”

“We ask that you lift up the families and the victims in your prayers, your thoughts, and that you give them the privacy that they may need to overcome this horrific tragedy,” she went on.

The shooting is one of at least 387 mass shootings in the United States in 2023, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The archive, like CNN, defines a mass shooting as one that injured or killed four or more people, not including the shooter.

Belinda Miller Crashes Car Over Missing Item

Belinda Miller is a woman from Georgia who went to her local Popeye’s restaurant and when she found out that they forgot to include the biscuits with her order she would drive her vehicle into the restaurant. According to police reports Belinda Miller went to the Popeyes location on Walton Way in Augusta Georgia. Brenda would order her food and would discover there was no biscuits with her order. After a very loud argument the manager at Popeyes fixed the mistake and Miller would leave the restaurant.

However once she was out in the parking lot Belinda Miller would drive her SUV into Popeyes nearly hitting an eighteen year old employee. Miller would continue to drive her SUV into the restaurant until she was finally stopped by debris. The police were called and Belinda Miller would drive her SUV home where police found her and would arrest her. Belinda Miller has been charged with irst-degree criminal damage to property and aggravated assault.

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A Georgia woman allegedly drove her vehicle into a Popeyes restaurant on purpose after biscuits were mistakenly left out of her order, according to officials.

Belinda H. Miller, 50, was charged with first-degree criminal damage to property and aggravated assault.

Deputies with the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office were called to the Popeyes location on Walton Way in Augusta after receiving reports of an accident with injuries

The store’s manager told police Miller became angry when she discovered no biscuits with her order and that she then drove her SUV into a restaurant entrance.

The manager said the restaurant corrected the mistake and gave her the biscuits prior to the crash. The manager also said the woman threatened staff before the incident, including calling the store and threatening to drive her car into the building

Belinda Miller nearly struck an 18-year-old employee with her vehicle when she crashed into the store. She continued driving into the store until her vehicle was stopped by debris, according to arrest warrants.

The woman fled the scene after crashing into the restaurant and headed south on Gordon Highway. Her SUV was later found at her home with damage to the front.

The woman was booked into the Charles B. Webster Detention Center on Wednesday and given a bond of more than $4,000, although it is unclear if she remains in custody.

Georgia woman intentionally crashes vehicle into Popeyes over missing biscuits (yahoo.com)

Miles Bryant Charged With Susana Morales Murder

Former Georgia police officer Miles Bryant has been charged with the kidnapping and murder of sixteen year old Susana Morales. According to police reports Miles Bryant was arrested earlier this month for lying about Susana Morales death and for covering it up. Now Miles Bryant has been accused and charged with the kidnapping and murder of Susana Morales.

Susana Morales was reported missing by her family on July 16 2022 and would basically disappear. Several months later, February 2023, the body of Susana Morales was discovered. Police in Georgia began to watch Miles Bryant and soon they would have enough evidence to arrest him for covering up the murder. Now Miles Bryant has been charged with her kidnapping and murder.

Since his arrest Miles Bryant has been accused of stalking another woman after she saw Bryant lurking around her home and attempting to open up her door. The woman would report Miles Bryant behavior to his then employers Doraville Police and Gwinnett County Police. The police are now investigating the case.

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The former Doraville police officer arrested as part of the investigation into the disappearance and death of 16-year-old Susana Morales has now been charged with her kidnapping and murder.

Morales had been missing since last July. Earlier this month, Gwinnett detectives arrested 22-year-old Miles Bryant of Norcross, accusing him of hiding the teen’s death and then lying about it. Wednesday, the Gwinnett County Police Chief say that they’ve upgraded Bryant’s charges to felony murder and kidnapping.

Morales’ family members told police they hadn’t seen her since the evening of July 26. That night, detectives said Morales texted her mom at 9:40 p.m. to tell her she was on her way to her home on Santa Anna Drive. Officials confirmed an app on Morales’ cell phone showed that she was walking in that direction on Singleton Road from Windscape Village Lane between 10:07 p.m. and 10:21 p.m., but detectives said they have reason to believe she died between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. on the next day.

Between 10:21 p.m. and 10:26 p.m., her phone indicated that she was in the area of Oak Loch Trace and Steve Reynolds Boulevard. Her phone pinged that location until it either died or was turned off. Morales never made it home.

A breakthrough in the case came on Feb. 6, when officers responded to the area between Drowning Creek and Barrow County after someone reported seeing what they believed were human remains in the forest.

The Gwinnett Medical Examiners’ office tested the remains and said the DNA matched Morales’ dental records. The site was about 20 miles from where the teen was last seen. In a search of the area around where Morales’ body was found, officials say they found a firearm belonging to Bryant that he had reported stolen on the same day the teen was reported missing.

After marking Bryant a person of interest in the case, officials say they began watching his activities and eventually found evidence that “directly linked” him to the crime.

In the warrant application, officials allege that Bryant, who was working as a Doraville police officer at the time of Morales’ death, lives close to where she was last reported on Windscape Village Lane and dumped her naked body in the woods.

While police mentioned in their warrant application that they suspected Bryant of rape, he has not been charged with the offense. Gwinnett County James McClure says that it “is a possibility” the teen was sexually assaulted.

“What we do know is that she died at the hands of Miles Bryant,” McClure said.

Calling Morales’ death an “unspeakable tragedy,” McClure said that the fact the crime was allegedly committed by a law enforcement officer “evoked anger” within the ranks of his agency.

At this point, investigators say there is no evidence that anyone else was involved in Morales’ death.

Speaking to FOX 5, Susana’s older sister Jasmine Morales says that the family believes that the teen did not know Bryant and that her death was a stranger-on-stranger crime.

Jasmine told FOX 5 her parents are not doing well since news broke of the arrest and warrant. She said they are still hopeful they can get her justice soon.

The family hopes those who have information on what happened will speak up.

“That’s why I did a post for anybody with information to come forward, because all that can be used as evidence against him. He is the only one who knows what happened,” the older sister said.Jasmine told FOX 5 her parents are not doing well since news broke of the arrest and warrant. She said they are still hopeful they can get her justice soon

After Bryant’s arrest, a Snellville woman came forward to FOX 5 claiming she was stalked by him around the same time that Morales disappeared.

.Elesha Bates, 21, says that she had known Bryant since fifth grade, and that Ring video provided by a neighbor showed him lurking around her apartment door and tugging at the doorknob.

Ms. Bates believes Ring video her neighbor gave her is Miles Bryant as he was lurking around her door with a hood on his head, tugging at her doorknob. She says he even broke in one time when she was not home.

“When my neighbor told me that she saw Miles come into our community and mess with my door when I wasn’t home, just trying to see if I was home messing with my doorknob and stuff. Once she showed me the video, it was all alarming,” Ms. Bates said.

She says Bryant became so aggressive she feared for her life and reported the then police officer to his employer Doraville Police and Gwinnett County Police.

Doraville Police says they launched an administrative investigation, talked to Bryant and the behavior stopped. Doraville Police says they told Bates to report any potential criminal charges to the Gwinnett County Police Department.

Gwinnett County Police says they are not sure why her complaint was not followed up on, but they are reopening the case.

Speaking on Wednesday, McClure said that they do not believe the two incidents are connected.

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/susana-morales-death-investigation-update-officer-arrest