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Crime reduction efforts in rural Georgia face setbacks after federal cuts

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By Chamian Cruz Verified
| WABE-FM (Atlanta, GA) Verified
Last year’s sweeping cuts to U.S. Department of Justice funding are costing rural Georgians opportunities to improve their lives and communities. An 11-year-old, whom Annise Mabry, with the Dr. Annise Mabry Foundation, calls their “biggest success story” in Burke County, southeast of Atlanta, will be among the last to graduate from her Rural Communities Diploma Program. Mabry said the boy had been getting bullied, fighting and expelled from school, all because he couldn’t read.
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Apalachee High School shooter was a ‘copycat,’ prosecution finishes arguing before sentencing

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By Chamian Cruz Verified
| WABE-FM (Atlanta, GA) Verified
The prosecution on Tuesday rested its case against Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray, who is being considered for a chance at parole after he receives a life sentence. Gray, now 16, pleaded guilty last week to shooting and killing two students, Christian Angulo and Mason Schermerhorn, and two teachers, Cristina Irimie and Richard Aspinwall, and injuring several others in 2024. He is not eligible for the death penalty due to his age.
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'I want to make history': Apalachee High School shooter's motivations questioned in court

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By Chamian Cruz Verified
| WABE-FM (Atlanta, GA) Verified
The teenager who pleaded guilty to all 55 counts stemming from the 2024 Apalachee High School shooting staged his computer in his room and dyed his hair orange to look like other mass shooters, Kevin Richards, a forensic psychologist, testified in court on Monday. Colt Gray, now 16, faces life in prison after changing his plea last week, but the judge in the case is weighing whether he should be eligible for parole.
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