CARTERSVILLE - Bartow County authorities have arrested a 15-year-old girl in the death of her father, who was shot once in the back of the head Dec. 8. <br>
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Tiffany Dorene Taylor surrendered at the sheriff's office on Thursday and was charged with murder as an adult, Sgt. Robert Moultrie said. <br>
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``I had been in touch with her and her mother for the last several weeks,'' Moultrie said. <br>
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He said that after Ted Taylor's death, the girl had gone to California and then to Tennessee, where her mother, Dorene Medley, lives. <br>
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Moultrie said Taylor told investigators she had disposed of a handgun before she left Georgia. ``We know what she did with it, and it will be a long shot if we can find it,'' he said. <br>
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District Attorney Joseph Campbell said Georgia law mandates a life sentence for anyone under 17 convicted of murder, but excludes capital punishment.
