Judge conducts status hearing in Milton teens’ murder case

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ATLANTA — The two Milton High School student athletes accused in the 2021 murder of an Alpharetta man appeared via Zoom for a Jan. 23 case management hearing in Fulton County Superior Court.

Cameron Walker and Jonathan Murray, of Roswell, were indicted Feb. 11, 2022, for the murder of Connor

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Mediate, 24, who was found in the parking lot of his Alpharetta apartment complex with gunshot wounds to his neck on Oct. 14, 2021. He died on the scene. Walker and Murray were 17 and 18 at the time. Walker and Murray were arrested Nov. 18, 2021 on three counts of felony murder, murder, criminal attempt to commit armed robbery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, criminal attempt to purchase marijuana and possession of a firearm gun from an individual on Instagram for a heavy discount. The officers said the driver should have known the gun was stolen given the purchasing method and cost. Police arrested the driver for theft by receiving.

Jenkinsburg man arrested for possessing stolen gun

ROSWELL, Ga. — Roswell police arrested a Jenkinsburg, Ga., man after they found a stolen handgun during a traffic stop on Jan. 24 on Holcomb Bridge Road.

An officer pulled over the vehicle when he noticed the tint on the front window was too dark to see the driver, a violation of Georgia law. The officer ran the plates and found the driver had multiple warrants out in different jurisdictions.

The officer also stated that when he approached the car, he could smell marijuana, but the driver said there were no drugs inside. Other officers arrived on the scene and asked the driver and passengers to get out of the car so they could search it for marijuana.

In the search, officers found a handgun under the driver’s seat and multiple bags of marijuana. The serial number of the gun showed it was listed as stolen.

The driver said he purchased the

Police arrest suspect for assault on woman

ROSWELL, Ga. — Roswell police responded to a wooded area of Alpharetta Highway near Hospital Boulevard early Jan. 21 after a woman reported she had been in an altercation with a man who lived in the woods.

Police said the woman was swaying and appeared intoxicated, and repeatedly said she did not want the man to go to jail for domestic violence. Officers noticed the woman had bruising around her eye.

She said the pair got into an argument while lying in a tent together, and he had elbowed her in the eye. The man told police he had nothing to do with the injuries.

Officers left the scene but returned at 6 a.m. after receiving multiple calls from the same woman, who said the man punched her in the face. When they arrived on the scene again, the woman’s face was visibly swelling.

They detained the man, who told police he may have slapped the woman. The man was arrested and trans - during the commission of a felony. The teens were denied bond in March 2022. ported to Fulton County Jail for simple battery.

At the Jan. 23 hearing, the prosecutor told Judge Shukura Ingram she recently received the ballistics report which will give information on the firearms used in the murder. She also sent the report to the defense.

Judge Ingram said the “status check” was complete and the case would move forward sometime in February.

Roswell couple reports threat on their lives

ROSWELL, Ga. — A husband and wife at Creekside Way told Roswell officers on Jan. 26 that a man in a white hoodie banged on their apartment door around 1 a.m. stating “I’m going to kill you.”

When officers arrived on the scene, they located a man who matched the physical description of the suspect. The man denied any involvement but said he had knocked on a different door in the apartment complex, which police soon found was a vacant property.

The couple could not confirm whether the man officers spoke to was the same person who banged on their door, but they did say the man police located was frequently seen around the complex. The husband also said that his uncle had received a threat from the man on Facebook messenger. The husband showed officers a message in which the man wrote in Spanish, “If you change it, I’m going to kill you as promised after.”

Officers did not have a witness to the incident, so they gave the suspect a criminal trespass warning and left the scene.