ATHENS - The man accused of gunning down an Athens police officer in March has been formally indicted by an Athens-Clarkes County grand jury, but not just for that crime.
The grand jury handed down a 70-count indictment in a 12-page document against 33-year-old Jamie Hood, according to a report in the Athens Banner Herald. Hood is accused of shooting two officers on March 22 as they investigated a kidnapping in Athens. Officer Buddy Christian was killed. Officer Tony Howard was seriously wounded.
The indictment also charges Hood with murdering an alleged drug dealer, Kenneth Omari Wray, on December 28, 2010 outside Wray's Athens home. That murder reportedly took place during an armed robbery.
One of the witnesses in the Wray murder investigation was Judon Brooks who, police say, Hood kidnapped the afternoon of March 22. That is the same kidnapping that Officers Christian and Howard were investigating.
The document also charges Hood with nearly a dozen counts each of kidnapping and false imprisonment for holding a houseful of people at the end of a three-day manhunt.
At the time of all of the crimes, Hood was a convicted felon.
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November 26th, 2024
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