{"id":233989,"date":"2025-10-09T22:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T02:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=233989"},"modified":"2025-10-09T22:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T02:39:16","slug":"boyfriend-charged-after-19-year-old-woman-shot-to-death-in-lawrenceville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=233989","title":{"rendered":"Boyfriend Charged After 19-Year-Old Woman Shot to Death in Lawrenceville"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 19-year-old woman died early Thursday morning after being shot in the head at a Lawrenceville home, and her boyfriend now faces criminal charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What It Means For You:<\/strong> Police say the shooting happened inside a home on Lauren Kay Court around 1:19 a.m. The suspect cooperated with police and remains in custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong> Officers found the woman in an upstairs bedroom with a gunshot wound to her head. Medical workers pronounced her dead at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Police arrested 19-year-old Sebastian Prestridge and charged him with one count of involuntary manslaughter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Everyone in the home at the time is cooperating with investigators.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Between the Lines:<\/strong> Involuntary manslaughter charges typically mean police believe the death was unintentional but resulted from reckless or negligent behavior. The charge is a felony in Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What We Don&#8217;t Know:<\/strong> Police have not released the victim&#8217;s name while they notify her family. Investigators have not shared details about what led to the shooting or how it happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Sources:<\/strong> Lawrenceville Police Department.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 19-year-old woman died early Thursday morning after being shot in the head at a Lawrenceville home, and her boyfriend now faces criminal charges. What It Means For You: Police say the shooting happened inside a home on Lauren Kay Court around 1:19 a.m. The suspect cooperated with police and remains in custody. What Happened: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":233741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"above","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[11004,8519],"class_list":["post-233989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-guns","tag-shooting","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}