Georgia

COLUMBUS, Ga. -- The parents of a three-day-old girl who died early Sunday have been charged with her murder.

Police in Columbus, Ga., arrested Albert Debelbot, 24, and his 23-year-old wife, Ashley, on Monday afternoon. The couple were taken into custody after doctors determined the baby died from blunt-force injuries.

Authorities said McKenzy Debelbot was born Thursday.

Police say 21-year-old Virkisha Warren drowned her three month old son - and put him in a trash bag. Warren went before a judge today in Chatham County - showing no emotion as she was read her rights. Warren is being held without bond. She'll be in court again later this month.

Brandon Warren was in this world just three months.
His last day here now haunts his Great Aunt:
"I was in my house cleaning up and he (Brandon's father) came in crying. I'm like, 'What's wrong with you Brandon?' and he's like, 'My baby out there in the bag dead.' I said 'What are you talking about?' He said, 'She done killed my baby,'" recalls Thompkins.

The infant's mom - Virkisha Warren - telling police she woke up Thursday and he wasn't breathing. "She did not have a cell phone at her house. She transported her and her child to her baby's daddy's house. On her way to the father's house she saw him on a road... She stopped and picked him up," says Savannah-Chatham Police Detective Karen Ryan.

In her lap - police say - a trash bag.

"He asked what was in the bag. She told him some clothes - he knew it was not clothes. When he looked and reached for the bag, he realized it was his son," explains Ryan.

DECATUR, Ga. -- DeKalb County police are investigating a double shooting in which a father appears to have shot and killed his 1-year-old daughter and then killed himself.

DeKalb County police officer Marcus Hodge says Mario Roberts, 21, was arguing with his child's mother in the couple's car when he pulled out a gun and shot their daughter, Amari Roberts. It appears the father then shot himself, Hodge said.

Officials said they were visiting the child's maternal grandmother's home to celebrate Easter. "They were over here visiting them and they were in the driveway when this occurred," said Hodge.

Police say the father and child were rushed to separate hospitals. The girl was later pronounced dead.

The father was also pronounced dead early Monday morning.

DAWSONVILLE, Ga. -- An autopsy has revealed that slain hiker Meredith Emerson died from blunt force trauma to the head before being decapitated.

Officials also said that Emerson was killed on Jan. 4, three days after the first report of her disappearance. No comments were made as to what happened during that time.

At a press conference at 3 p.m., Dawson County officials said Gary Michael Hilton, 61, has been charged with murder. He is being held at the Dawson County Jail.

Authorities also say she performed oral sex on a 9-year-old boy in her classroom, let students peek down her blouse and talked to some of the children about sexual matters.

A janitor at a women's clinic who purportedly ran a modeling agency was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting three teenage girls, including a 14-year-old allegedly raped while he claimed to be giving her an abortion.

Michael Britt told the 14-year-old, who feared she was pregnant, that he could perform an abortion using a cream, and sexually assaulted her under the guise of applying it, police said in court affidavits.

Lazenby was shot seven times, once in the arm and six times in the abdomen. A neighbor heard shots, came outside and called 911 as the 52-year-old grandfather lay in the grass of a nearby lawn thinking he might die.

When Lazenby came out of surgery hours later, he learned that he had suffered extensive damage — 29 holes in his colon and intestines, shattered bones in his arm. He would live, but he would never be able to digest food or produce insulin by himself.