A 24-year-old Buckhead man remains incarcerated and his mother remains in intensive care at Grady Memorial Hospital after the man allegedly beat her severely on Monday afternoon.
According to Capt. Brandon Sellers, Morgan County Sheriff’s Office, Dion Turner was arrested without incident on the front porch of a house he shares with his parents on the 1800 block of Apalachee Woods Trail in Buckhead.
Sellers said Turner is the only suspect in an assault that left the 59-year-old woman covered in blood and laying on the ground in the backyard of the Apalachee Woods Trail home. Sellers said Morgan County Dispatch received a 911 call from a neighbor at approximately 4 p.m. The neighbor, the captain said, had been asked by the woman’s husband to check on his property. He did so, observed the victim and left in a golf cart to create distance from the scene and to call 911. “He saw the injuries but did not know how they had occurred and did not want to be injured himself,” Sellers said.
Within 18 minutes Sellers, Dept. Patrick Carey and Sgt. Chase Young, Investigations Divisions, arrived at the scene and immediately formed a protective perimeter around the victim. The woman, he said, was covered with blood and had obvious blunt trauma wounds to her head and upper torso. Sellers said soon after, members of the Morgan County Fire and Rescue Department and National EMS arrived and, while law enforcement officers secured the scene with weapons drawn, emergency workers tried to stabilize the woman. She was transported to Morgan Medical Center and then life-flighted to Grady.
Dept. Blake Rowe, Sellers, Carey and Young secured the scene. Sellers said Young was able to make contact with Turner inside the residence via telephone and convinced the suspect to come outside. “Chase was able to get him to come out the front door,” Sellers said….
Read the full article here
