In the early hours of a Saturday in August 2018, the quiet of a Buford, Georgia, neighborhood was shattered, leaving a family torn apart and a community in shock. Montez Love-Bullock, a 39-year-old Black man, was found lying unresponsive in the middle of Apple Grove Road. He had sustained a fatal gunshot wound, and his life was tragically cut short. The events that led to this grim discovery began to unfold as a domestic dispute that had escalated to a point of no return.
The Gwinnett County police responded to a 911 call around 1 a.m. on August 25th, initially about a person down in the street. Upon their arrival, they pronounced Montez Love-Bullock dead at the scene. The investigation quickly turned towards his wife, Christy Love-Bullock, who was also 39 at the time. Evidence and witness statements painted a picture of a volatile relationship that had a history of domestic disturbances, with police having been called to their home on multiple occasions prior to the fatal incident.
On the night of the shooting, Christy Love-Bullock had made two 911 calls herself. In the first, she requested police assistance to remove a man from her house. In the second call, she stated that he had left and that police were no longer needed. However, a neighbor's simultaneous 911 call about a body in the road revealed the tragic outcome of the evening's turmoil. Christy's 16-year-old daughter later recounted to police that she had heard her parents arguing, followed by a gunshot. She then heard her stepfather, Montez, say he was leaving and the sound of him tumbling down the stairs. Another gunshot was heard as he exited the home. Investigators found a bullet hole in the front door of the residence.
Christy Love-Bullock was arrested and initially charged with aggravated assault and felony murder in the death of her husband. She was taken into custody at the scene and was later held at the Gwinnett County Detention Center without bond. In November 2018, the charges against her were upgraded by a grand jury to include malice murder, suggesting prosecutors believed they could prove she intentionally killed her husband without legal justification. Despite the initial flurry of media coverage and the serious charges, information regarding the final outcome of the legal proceedings against Christy Love-Bullock, including a trial, verdict, or conviction, is not publicly available in the years that have followed. The narrative of that tragic night concludes with a family left grieving and a wife and mother facing the gravest of charges, leaving the full story of justice for Montez Love-Bullock unresolved in the public record.
