Bainbridge - A Bainbridge woman was shot and killed Monday evening after fighting broke out at the Bainbridge Housing Authority apartments on Sims Street.

Ebony Clarke, 21 year-old resident of the apartment complex, was rushed to Memorial Hospital and Manor shortly after 7:00 p.m.

Law enforcement officials said Clarke, who was found in her apartment, had been shot in the face.

According to incident reports, when they arrived on Broughton Street they found 24-year-old Terrience Hallmon lying unconscious in the street with a bloody mouth. Witnesses in the area told the officers that Phillip Dewayne Anderson had knocked the man out. Godwin said it appeared the man had been hit with brass knuckles.

While still assisting Hallmon, the officers heard two gunshots from the direction of the apartments. Heading in the direction of the shots they found Travis Hallmon, shot in the leg.

Numerous law enforcement units including BPS, Decatur County Sheriff's Office, Georgia State Patrol, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigators were soon assisting in crowd control and then later at the hospital where another fight broke out.

Investigators worked in to the night going from door to door asking questions.

"We are not in a position to make an arrest yet," Bainbridge Public Safety Investigator Frank Green said. "At this time we are still collecting statements and following information we have received."

Blakely - Early County Sheriff Jimmie Murkerson won re-election in the August 5 General Primary runoff election, defeating challenger Donald Bryant with 54.75 percent of the vote.

Both candidates were able to energize voters, drawing over 700 more to the polls for the runoff than turned out for the July 15 General Primary.

With 4,196 of the county's 7,282 registered voters turning out for the run-off, Murkerson received 2,277 votes and Bryant 1,882.

With 3,493 voters turning out for the July 15 General Primary, Murkerson had edged Bryant, a former deputy and investigator by 40 votes in a three-way race.

Cairo - Sympathy for a young mother and her baby son hurt in a car accident last week is being expressed by relatives of the man who caused the wreck and died shortly afterwards.

The family of 70-year-old Robert Linton, who died moments after the accident, has told Grady County Sheriff Harry Young they are praying for the other victims of the wreck.

Young says Linton, of Thomasville, was probably not aware of what he was doing when he crashed into the back of 28-year-old Casey Valentine's 2000 Honda Accord last Wednesday. Valentine and her one-year-old son had been driving west on US Hwy. 84 when she pulled into the center turn lane to turn left onto Singletary Road.

Linton was also driving west in a 2002 Chevrolet pickup truck when he crashed into Valentine, then ran into a tree.

Sheriff Young says Linton may have suffered a stroke or heart attack before the accident.

Baby Valentine was life flighted to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital where he was treated. His mother was transported to Grady General Hospital. Young says both are home and continuing their recovery.

Dawson - A Terrell County jury convicted a Dawson man charged in the June 2007 murder of a Webster County woman in Terrell Superior Court last week.

Corrick D. Johnson, 27, was found guilty on all five charges he faced in the death of Latresh S. Brown of a Preston address at a Dawson motel in June of last year.

The jury found Johnson guilty on one count of malice murder and two counts of felony murder in connection with the death. He was also found guilty on one count of aggravated assault and one count of false imprisonment. Pataula Judicial Circuit Judge Joe C. Bishop will sentence Johnson at a later date.