Author: Robert Preston

A Friday night shooting at Eastwood Apartments in Douglas has left two dead and one injured. According to Brannen Pruette of the Douglas Police Department, Curtis Wallace, 51, shot and killed his wife, Kathy Wallace, then, after a fairly lengthy standoff, killed himself before he could be apprehended. A second victim, Christy Rhoden, 23, was also shot but sustained minor injuries. Rhoden was treated and released from Coffee Regional Medical Center. The shooting took place around 7:35 p.m. Friday at the apartments on North McDonald Avenue. After shooting both Rhoden and Kathy Wallace in an upstairs apartment, Curtis Wallace fled…

Officers from the Douglas Police Department, Georgia State Patrol, the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office, and an area SWAT team swarmed the neighborhood surrounding Amelia Apartments on North McDonald Avenue Friday night after a gunman shot two individuals, one fatally, and barricaded himself inside an apartment. As of Friday around 11 p.m., the gunman, who family on the scene identified as Curtis Wallace, was still barricaded inside the apartment. According to a police spokesman, the body of the deceased female was inside the apartment as well. A second female who had been shot had gotten out of the building and was…

Focused. Determined. Stifling. Relentless. Those are but a few words you could use to describe the Coffee Trojans’ defense Friday night. The defensive unit pounded the Glynn Academy Red Terrors into submission as the Trojans picked up a much needed region win in Brunswick, defeating the Terrors 22-0. The offense was adequate, special teams improved. But it was the defense that kept the Trojans in the game all night long. Glynn Academy is one of the region’s sleeper teams, seldom mentioned in the region championship discussion but one of the more dangerous teams on the schedule. Last year, the Red…

When junior defensive lineman Troy Taft sacked Ware County’s quarterback for a 16-yard loss deep in Coffee territory at the end of the second quarter, it should have a game-defining play. Instead, it was a footnote in a painful 23-14 loss to the Gators in Jardine Stadium Friday night. The Trojans were holding on to a slim 7-3 lead when a bad snap on a punt gave Ware the ball on Coffee’s 10 yard line. With time running out in the second quarter, the turnover should have resulted in a Gator touchdown and a halftime lead. Instead, the Coffee defense…

Just prior to the kickoff of the Coffee Trojans’ home opener against the Savannah High School Blue Jackets Friday night, fans watched a tribute to the late Riccardo Ingram and Malik Sparkman, two Trojans who lost battles with cancer this year. Coffee linebackers coach Neil Graham, who himself was waging his own war against cancer, was listening to the game in a bed at Northside Hospital in Atlanta. Hours later, after hearing his Trojans win 38-0, Coach Graham joined Ingram and Sparkman in death, the third Trojan to succumb to cancer in recent months. Neil Graham came to Coffee County…

Friday night’s game between the Coffee Trojans and the Savannah High Blue Jackets was over almost before it started. It really was. Coffee running back Demetrius Davis scored on an 84-yard touchdown run just 17 seconds into the game. The Trojans would roll from there, eventually defeating the Blue Jackets 38-0 at Jardine Stadium. The game began with a touching tribute on the Jumbotron to Riccardo Ingram and Malik Sparkman, two Trojans who tragically lost brave battles with cancer earlier this year. Once the game, which was Coffee’s home opener, was underway, the Trojans hit their stride early and never…

Five Trojans scored a total of six touchdowns in Coffee’s 39-0 win over the North Oconee Titans at the Erk Russell Classic in Statesboro’s Paulson Stadium Saturday afternoon. Junior running back Demetrius Davis scored twice, once on a seven-yard run in the first quarter and again on 58-yard run near the end of the fourth quarter. The game started an hour late due to lightning and rain, which caused both teams to play sloppily in the first half. The Trojans had opportunities but kept making costly mistakes. At half-time, Coffee held on to a slim 6-0 lead. The second half,…

The Community Foundation of Coffee County is accepting applications from charitable organizations in Coffee County to further the ability of these organizations to meet the needs of local citizens. The application deadline is Sept. 30 of this year. The foundation typically announces recipients within two months of the deadline. To apply for a grant, complete the online application at www.cfcga.org. First, representatives of these organizations must register for a user ID and password at www.cfcga.org/spectrumwebportal; logging in here will allow access to the application. Last year, the foundation awarded a total of $10,000 to four different organizations – the Fellowship…

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has released more information regarding last night’s shooting on Cutter Road in Douglas. According to the GBI, the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office requested assistance from the GBI in connection with the shooting. GBI agents responded to the sheriff’s office’s request just before 8 p.m. on Sunday night. Monday afternoon, the GBI released a verbal statement saying that the agency believes that the shooting involved a child and the child’s mother. The mother is the victim of the shooting. She is hospitalized in critical condition. At the moment, the GBI believes that the shooting was accidental.…

Coffee County deputies and EMS officials responded to a residence off Cutter Rd. around 7:30 p.m. Sunday after receiving a report of a gunshot victim. Details of the shooting have not been released as of Monday morning. However, we do know the female victim was found with a gunshot wound to the head. The victim was transported from the scene to Coffee Regional Medical Center. Douglas Now will continue to update this story as more information is provided by officials.