On a late Sunday evening in LaGrange, Georgia, the life of D’Andre Rashad Cotton, a 27-year-old male, was tragically cut short. On January 17, 2021, officers from the LaGrange Police Department responded to a call of a person shot at a residence on Wright Street. Upon their arrival after 10 p.m., they discovered Mr. Cotton deceased on the front porch of his home from a gunshot wound to the head.
The incident also left another man, 28-year-old Jamarius Dunlap, injured. Mr. Dunlap was transported to a local hospital by a personal vehicle before being life-flighted to a hospital in Atlanta for further treatment.
The investigation into the double shooting led authorities to identify a suspect. Within days of the incident, investigators with the LaGrange Police Department secured warrants for the arrest of 32-year-old Calvin Demond Sanders. On February 12, 2021, Sanders was located in Woodbury, Georgia, and taken into custody. He was subsequently transported to the Troup County Jail.
Further details regarding the specifics of the charges against Calvin Demond Sanders, his trial, and any subsequent conviction have not been made publicly available in online sources. The motive for the shooting and the circumstances leading up to the violent encounter on the front porch of the Wright Street home also remain undisclosed in the available information. The case, which began with a distress call on a quiet Sunday night, has left a family to mourn the loss of a young man and a community to await the full resolution of the legal process.
