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Moultrie man charged with statutory rape

MOULTRIE (TNS) — When police arrested a Moultrie man accused of having sex with an underage girl they also picked up his girlfriend, who police say hindered their work.

Keshon Ty’Kerrion Jones, 21, 601 Fourth St. S.W., was charged on Friday with enticing a child for indecent purposes, statutory rape and probation violation.

Police began investigating after the mother of a girl under 16 contacted police about an incident that occurred on Oct. 26 or 27.

“The mother reported the child was found at a residence with Keshon and another adult male and another juvenile girl,” Moultrie Police Department Sgt. Carly Davis said. “She said they had sexual intercourse — one with Keshon, one with the other male.”

Officers arrested Jones Friday at the 923 Fifth Ave. S.W. residence of Shakena Singletary, police Lt. Freddie Williams said.

“We had been over there several times trying to get him” and Singletary was misleading, Williams said. “She kept letting him come back.”

Singletary, 26, was charged with hindering the apprehension of a criminal.

Gunshot goes through child’s car seat

ATLANTA (TNS) — A man was on the run after robbing an auto parts store in Fayette County, opening fire during a dramatic getaway and nearly hitting a 3-year-old girl, according to Channel 2 Action News.

Mike McKinney was driving past O’Reilly Auto Parts on Tyrone Road early Monday when he heard a victim screaming that he’d been shot, and saw the robber jump into a car. With his three children in his SUV, McKinney rammed the man’s getaway car.

He said he could see the robber’s eyes. “I saw fear and desperation change to anger,” McKinney said.

He told his children to get down. “I screamed it so loud,” McKinney said.

The children ducked just before the robber fired into the SUV. The shot pierced a window and went right through McKinney’s daughter’s car seat.

“If she hadn’t have moved her head,” he said, “it would have been right in her head.”

The robber was running after holding store employees at gunpoint, and clearing out the register. He also shot at an employee who startled him as he tried to leave through the back door, Tyrone police Detective D. Morris said.

Police said what McKinney did is not recommended.

Cop feared auto would explode in rescue

EAST POINT (TNS) — An East Point officer who pulled a man from a burning car didn’t know if the car was going to explode.

Sgt. Henry Smith told Channel 2 Action News the heat was so extreme he could feel the flames on his arms, and the worst case scenario was going through his head: “Just fearing that I wouldn’t be able to make it home to my wife and kids.”

Passerby Christopher Wright called 911 shortly after 1 a.m. Dec. 5 to say a car was on fire and a man was trapped inside. Wright said Smith, who had been patrolling the area near Washington Road and Arlington roads, made it there in less than 30 seconds.

Smith found an unconscious man behind the wheel of a red Chevrolet Aveo, and saw the hood was completely engulfed in flames.

“The driver inside, I was just concerned about him,” Smith told the television station. He couldn’t open the driver’s door, so he pulled the man out through the rolled down driver side window.

Wright said he doesn’t consider himself a hero; he was just “at the right place at the right time.” For Smith, it was a joy to help the man “be able to get home for the holidays.”

The 34-year-old driver, who had veered off the road and hit a tree before the car caught fire, went to the hospital for injuries to his legs. Smith believes the driver fell asleep at the wheel and doesn’t suspect alcohol was involved, according to Channel 2.

The driver was cited for failure to maintain a lane.

Man accused of hiding camera in bedroom

ATLANTA (TNS) — A Hall County man is accused of hiding a camera inside a woman’s bedroom, officials said.

Vernon Kyle Rowe, 30, of Cumming, was arrested Monday on a felony invasion of privacy charge, Hall County sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Scott Ware said.

Hall County deputies say Rowe observed and photographed the woman through a secret camera hidden in an electrical outlet. Deputies believe Rowe installed the camera in July and watched the woman’s bedroom activities for months.

Authorities did not say how Rowe allegedly obtained access to the bedroom.

When the woman found the camera, she notified law enforcement and, Ware said, a warrant for Rowe’s arrest was issued Friday.

Rowe posted a $5,000 bond and was released from the Hall County jail, Ware said.

DNA test revals brothers at same college

MACON (TNS) — For one Kennesaw State student, an early Christmas gift from his adoptive parents led to a huge discovery — that his biological brother attends the very same school.

Kieron Christian Graham, 20, was given an Ancestry.com DNA test kit to help him learn more about his family history. According to the AJC, he was adopted in 1997 when he was 3 months old.

Graham knew his birth mother had another child named “Vincent,” and upon receiving his test results, he found he was a strong match to a 29-year-old man named Vincent Ghant, the newspaper reported.

Graham then found and reached out to Ghant on Facebook and chronicled the events on his Twitter account