{"id":38289,"date":"2022-07-18T16:49:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T20:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=38289"},"modified":"2022-07-18T16:51:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T20:51:04","slug":"police-investigate-fatal-shooting-of-22-year-old-georgia-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=38289","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate fatal shooting of 22-year-old Georgia man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating a shooting in\u00a0Baldwin. The Baldwin Police Department asked the GBI to assist with a shooting investigation on\u00a0July 17. One man was shot and died.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preliminary information indicates that at about 8:30\u00a0p.m.,\u00a0the Habersham County 911 Center received a call regarding a shooting on Boxwood Avenue in Cornelia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When officers arrived, they found 22-year-old Eduardo Mora, of <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/county\/Baldwin\"   title=\"Baldwin\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"507\">Baldwin<\/a>, with a gunshot wound.\u00a0Mora was\u00a0taken\u00a0to the hospital with critical injuries, where he later died.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the GBI, 17-year-old Jose Luis Morales, of Baldwin, was still on scene, and was identified as the\u00a0person who\u00a0shot Mora. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Mora\u00a0went to\u00a0Morales\u2019 home and pointed a gun at him.\u00a0Morales then shot\u00a0Mora,&#8221; GBI spokeswoman Natalie Ammons said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an active investigation and charges in this case are anticipated. Anyone with information about this case can submit tips by calling 1-800-597-TIPS (8477), online at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgbi.georgia.gov%2Fsubmit-tips-online&amp;data=05%7C01%7CNatalie.Ammons%40gbi.ga.gov%7Ceb813499b5ec4e67eae308da68f43c6e%7C512da10d071b4b948abc9ec4044d1516%7C0%7C0%7C637937695433181619%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=9mDvyMGjljbIjzgxbH0pi03cG7ac%2FqqPpRAPO51d6l8%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/gbi.georgia.gov\/submit-tips-online<\/a>,\u00a0or by downloading the See Something, Send Something mobile app.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon completion of this investigation, the case will be given to the Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney\u2019s Office for prosecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating a shooting in\u00a0Baldwin. The Baldwin Police Department asked the GBI to assist with a shooting investigation on\u00a0July 17. One man was shot and died.\u00a0 Preliminary information indicates that at about 8:30\u00a0p.m.,\u00a0the Habersham County 911 Center received a call regarding a shooting on Boxwood Avenue in Cornelia. When officers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","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":[8524,8525],"class_list":["post-38289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-cornelia","tag-habersham-county","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38289","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}