Police seeking woman's killer
Columbia County sheriff's investigators are searching for someone who fatally beat a Grovetown woman after she walked in on a burglary at her home Wednesday morning.
In a sheriff's office incident report Thursday, deputies said they found Laverne Katherine Parsons, 41, on the garage floor of her Orchard Hill home. A baseball bat and a claw hammer were on the floor nearby.
Parsons died Thursday at Medical College of Georgia Hospital, Capt. Steve Morris said.
Deputies initially were contacted by a contractor hired to work at the house at 229 Hot Springs Drive who had discovered the glass of the French doors shattered. A deputy found what appeared to be blood on the sofa and living room rug, according to the report. A blood trail led to the victim in the garage.
Deputies also found blood on the walls and doors of the two-story brick home.
Authorities believe Parsons interrupted a burglary when she returned to her home about 9 a.m. after taking her son to school.
"She was confronted by the suspect and was attacked and was seriously injured," Morris said Wednesday.
The house next door, at 227 Hot Springs Drive, also had been burglarized, Morris said.
Neighbors were asked to call police if they saw anything that morning, Morris said. Anyone with information about the attack or burglaries is asked to call the sheriff's office, (706) 541-2800.
These accounts were taken from reports from the Colum-bia County Sheriff's Office. More reports are available at www.columbiacountyso.org:
Teen charged with taking knife to class
A Greenbrier High School student was charged Monday with having a knife at school.
The public safety officer told police that the 15-year-old had written a statement for the school that she lost her purse March 19.
She wrote that her purse contained a knife.
The purse was found Monday with the knife in it.
The teen said she carried the knife for protection. She told police that it was her first year in public school and that she had heard bad stories about public schools but that she said she didn't feel threatened by anyone specifically.
She was charged with possession of a weapon on school grounds, taken to Columbia County Detention Center for a photograph and fingerprints, and released to her mother.
Muggers use knife
A Martinez teen told police late Tuesday night that two men had robbed him at knife point in the parking lot of the Evans Kroger.
The 17-year-old said that between 10 and 10:30 p.m., two men approached him as he walked through the supermarket parking lot at 4335 Washington Road.
One man pulled a pocket knife and demanded money.
After the teen gave him $4, one man hit him in the face and the assailants walked toward Ronald Reagan Drive.
The victim described his attackers as black, 17 to 20 years old, 5-foot-10 to 6 feet tall and weighing 150-180 pounds; they wore darks pants and black hooded sweatshirts.
Sink ripped off wall
The clerk of an Evans convenience store told police Thursday that someone had ripped a bathroom sink off the wall.
She said that about 12:30 a.m., she heard a loud noise in the women's bathroom at Circle K, 4256 Washington Road. After two women left the bathroom, the clerk found the sink on the floor.
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