Judge conducts status hearing in Milton teens’ murder case

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By DELANEY TARR delaney@appenmedia.com

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, 17, and Jonathan Murray, 18, of Roswell, were indicted Feb. 11, 2022, for the murder of

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Connor Mediate, 24, who was found in the parking lot of his Alpharetta apartment complex with gunshot wounds to in his neck on Oct. 14, 2021. He died on the scene.

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 during the

The man also filed a report with the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office.

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Hardware store reports theft of $1,992 in tools

commission of a felony. The teens were denied bond in March 2022.

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.

call a number to fix the issue, the police report said. The man called the number and spoke to a man who said his bank account had been used to purchase child pornography and that he needed to pay to release the computer.

Cash, credit cards taken from unattended jacket

MILTON, Ga. — A thief stole two credit cards and from $600-800 from a wallet inside a jacket left unattended while the owner ran the track at Fowler Park Recreation in Forsyth County Center Jan. 17.

The following day, the man told Milton Police he received an alert notifying him of suspicious activity on one of the cards. The alert advised him that someone had attempted to make a purchase for $504.94 at the Walmart in Milton.

He received a separate fraud alert asking him to verify three recent charges. The first two were at the Milton Walmart in the amounts of $504.94 and $643.94. The third charge was at a Home Depot in Duluth for $1,023.64, however the charge was declined.

All totaled, the man was out $1,148.93. Police advised him to follow up with his banks and their fraud departments.

MILTON, Ga. — A woman reported to Milton Police Jan. 17 that a man stole several expensive power tools from Home Depot earlier in the month.

The woman said the man entered the store, then passed all points of sale with a $299 tool kit, three $139 circular saws and four $319 drill kits.

The total value of stolen items was placed at $1,992.00, the police report said.

The woman said the store was able to identify the suspect, who was recently arrested in Roswell. The suspect is believed to have had an unidentified lookout who was also in the store, the woman said.

Both the suspect and the lookout entered a silver SUV and left the premises.

Pop-up ad traps victim in costly bitcoin scam

MILTON, Ga. — Milton police responded to a fraud call Jan. 18 regarding a man whose computer screen froze after he had clicked on a pop-up ad.

Wording on the screen advised he

The man was texted a bitcoin wallet code in which to deposit $9,900. The man withdrew the money then went to a Bitcoin of America Kiosk on Atlanta Highway in Forsyth County to deposit the money.

The man said it wasn’t until he started receiving calls from one man claiming to be from Microsoft and another claiming to be part of a fraud department that he suspected a scam.

One of the suspects called while the victim was at a Milton police station, and the call was placed on speaker. When the caller attempted to verify the man’s business account and personal checking account balances, the man refused. and his personal checking account balance.

He did not give the information, but he did tell police that what the caller stated was the correct account information.

The reporting officer then told the caller that he was speaking to police. Police told the caller not to contact the man again and that the victim would inform the fraud department of his bank.

Police ended the phone call, then advised the man to file a report with the Forsyth County Sheriff`s Department because the theft took place in its jurisdiction.