ACCORDING TO UPSON COUNTY SHERIFF DAN KILGORE, JAMES ROSS REEVES, AGE 77 HAD A GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS HEAD AND ANOTHER TO HIS RIGHT SHOULDER/CHEST AREA. HIS WIFE LINDA REEVES, 71, HAD A GUNSHOT WOUND TO HER RIGHT SHOULDER AREA. DEPUTIES RESPONDED TO 311 PLEASANT GROVE ROAD IN YATESVILLE AROUND 8;15PM MONDAY NIGHT AND FOUND THE COUPLE IN THE HOME.
BOTH WERE TREATED AT THE SCENE BY UPSON EMS AND TRANSPORTED TO THE MEDICAL CENTER OF CENTRAL GA. IN MACON FOR TREATMENT.
SHERIFF KILGORE SAID THE REEVES COUPLE ARRIVED AT THEIR HOME AND WERE ATTACKED FROM BEHIND BY A MALE SUBJECT WEARING DARK CLOTHING, AS THEY ENTERED THE BACK DOOR. AFTER SHOOTING THE REEVES WITH A HANDGUN, THE MALE FLED ON FOOT.
THE GBI IS ASSISTING WITH PROCESSING THE CRIME SCENE, GA. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS DISPATCHED BLOODHOUNDS TO CONDUCT A SEARCH AND THE SPALDING COUNTY HELICOPTER UNIT JOINED THE SEARCH. THE GSP, GA. STATE PROBATION DEPARTMENT AND LAMAR COUNTY S.O. ALSO ASSISTED WITH THE INVESTIGATION.
SHERIFF KILGORE SAID A $1000 REWARD IS BEING OFFERED FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO THE ARREST AND CONVICTION OF THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CRIMES.
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