DUPLICATE: Crisp County death being treated as homicide

CORDELE — A death investigation is being treated as a homicide investigation in Crisp County, officials reported this weekend.

Crisp County Sheriff H.W. Hancock reported in a news release that at approximately 4:50 p.m. Sunday, a manager at Cracker Barrel Restaurant called authorities after she drove to an employee’s residence at 2106 South 10th St., Lot 37, in Cordele when Ashley Nicole Garry, 27, failed to report for work — which was out of character for her.

After arrival the manager noticed that the front door of the residence was ajar, and she called 911. Deputies responded to the location and entered the residence and found Garry deceased from an unknown cause of death, the release said.

Further information is expected to be released at the investigation continues, but Garry’s death is currently being treated as a homicide. Hancock requested assistance from Georgia Bureau of Investigation Office in Americus with processing the scene and investigating the crime, the release said.

Hancock is urging anyone who may have seen or heard anything out of the ordinary in the area to call the Crisp County Sheriff’s Office at (229) 276-2600.