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Charges. Felony murder, aggravated assault. On August 7, 2020, Julian Edward Roosevelt Lewis, an unarmed 60-year-old American carpenter, was fatally shot by Georgia State Patrol officer Jacob Gordon Thompson, on a rural road in Screven County, Georgia. Thompson attempted to stop Lewis for driving a vehicle with a broken tail light.
The county was created on December 14, 1793, and was named for General James Screven, who died fighting in Georgia during the American Revolutionary War.Some wartime accounts used the alternate spelling of "Scriven" for the general, and the county's name was often spelled that way in its early history, as reflected on 19th-century Georgia maps.
Sylvania is located at 12]. U.S. Route 301 and Georgia State Route 21 are the main routes through the city. U.S. 301 runs north-south as a western bypass of the downtown area, leading northeast 29 mi (47 km) to Allendale, South Carolina and southwest 23 mi (37 km) to Statesboro.
The city went from 41st most populous city in 1860 to 62nd in 1880 (the first year Atlanta exceeded Savannah as Georgia's largest city). Savannah was the 86th-largest city in 1910, and by 1930 it was no longer ranked in the top 100 most populous U.S. cities. Savannah State University was founded in 1890 and is the oldest African-American public ...
Savannah: Chatham: Location of notable Roman statuary imports. [4] The house and grounds were used in several silent films, including Stolen Moments. [5] 76000650 Greenwood Plantation: Thomasville Thomas 88000968 Hamilton Plantation slave cabins: St. Simons Island: Glynn: Unusually well-built slave cabins; summer tours given by Cassina Garden ...
A funeral home director in Georgia said he knew something wasn't right when his business received a decapitated baby. "I just felt a sense of urgency to say, 'Hey listen, this is not right, this ...
Greenwich Cemetery is a rural cemetery located on a scenic bluff of the Wilmington River, east of Savannah, Georgia. [2] It stands on the site of the former Greenwich Plantation and became an addition to Bonaventure Cemetery (itself on the former grounds of Bonaventure Plantation) in 1933, [3] and it is the newest of the city's four municipal cemeteries.
Mercer House (Savannah, Georgia) Mercer House (now the Mercer Williams House Museum) is located at 429 Bull Street in Savannah, Georgia. [3] Completed in 1868, it occupies the southwestern civic block of Monterey Square. The house was the scene of the 1981 killing of Danny Hansford by the home's owner Jim Williams, a story that is retold in the ...