Chatham County homicides up in 2013

Timothy Roberts had been back in Savannah less than a year when he was shot to death in October about a block from his childhood home in the city's Cuyler-Brownville neighborhood. Roberts, 37, had spent about a decade working in Orlando, Fla., but he'd returned home in late 2012 to help his mother care for his ailing father. It was just the type of person he was, Martha Roberts said. "He was a beautiful person," she said of her late son, a single father and 1995 graduate of A.apart from the fact all five sets of pyjamas are from Victoria’s Secret, with matching dressing gowns and slippers Discount Taffeta Sweetheart Crystal Beaded A-line Prom/Evening Dresses.E. Beach High School. "He was loving and everybody loved him. He was just a great person, and I couldn't tell you nothing about why somebody wanted to hurt him."I'll never get that."



Like Martha Roberts,We are a full service florist specializing in extraordinary Tulle Glamorous Strapless Handmade Flowers Sprinkled Swarovski Crystal Wedding Dress. Dorothy Stevens struggles every day to understand why her child's life was suddenly and violently taken last year in Chatham County. Stevens' 24-year-old daughter Alice was killed along with her boyfriend Forrest Ison late Nov. 3 outside the Thunderbolt house they shared. "Her whole family misses her and is bewildered by why it happened and really having a tough time getting through the day," Dorothy Stevens said Thursday from her home in Clearwater, Fla. Roberts, Ison and Stevens were among the 32 people in Chatham County to lose their lives to homicide in 2013. While most of those homicides have been cleared by police this year, their cases are among 12 that remain unsolved.



In 2013, all but three homicides occurred in Savannah or unincorporated Chatham County. Ison and Stevens were killed in Thunderbolt and 20-year-old Donald Bernard Lewis was shot to death on Savannah State University's campus. All three are unsolved. Savannah-Chatham police Maj. Larry Branson, the department's Criminal Investigations Division commander, said his agency was investigating 31 homicides in 2013. However, that total included a pair of domestic-related deaths that were later "no-billed" by the Chatham County Grand Jury, meaning sufficient evidence was not found to continue cases against the defendants. Regardless of the exact figure, two things are clear: There was an increase in homicides in Chatham County in 2013 and among those investigated by Savannah-Chatham police a much higher percentage were cleared. Nine homicides in Savannah or unincorporated Chatham County last year are considered unsolved. That makes the homicide unit's clearance rate — a measure of police effectiveness calculated by dividing the number of crimes in which an arrest was made, a warrant was filed,Fashion Island brings you a topless White tulle beaded ball gown wedding dresses made of chiffon and silk that falls to your thighs. or the case has been sent to a grand jury by the total number of crimes in that year — 87 percent, which includes all solved 2013 cases and as well as five 2012 cases cleared within the last year.