Public Safety

Tyquise Baker will spend the rest of his life in prison. Baker was found guilty Sept. 8 of killing Julius Miller and a woman at 545 Dessie Road in 2021. He was sentenced to life plus 33 to 52 months in prison for first degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon. District Attorney Jon David said in a press release that witnesses described Baker shooting Miller and...

Duane Manning has been captured in Georgia after almost a week on the run. Manning, 56, was on parole for a 1995 murder in South Carolina when he struck a Columbus County Investigator with his vehicle. Manning was convicted of that assault in Superior Court in August. The conviction led to the revocation of his parole, and while Manning was being transferred at the Columbus Detention Center last...

More felony charges have been filed against Mhalik Graham after he allegedly tried to escape the county jail while another inmate was overdosing. Warrants show that Graham, 25, was charged with resisting an officer and misdemeanor escape from a local jail. Graham was already in jail under a secured bond for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. Graham allegedly refused to go back into his cell when the...