On July 30, 2025, 64-year-old Richard Hawk was driving north along Interstate 85 in Troup County when deputies were dispatched around 4:02 p.m. to what first looked like a crash near the 11-mile marker. They found his vehicle in the median and the driver, identified as 64-year-old Richard Hawk, unresponsive and bleeding. He was rushed to Wellstar West Georgia Medical Center, where doctors discovered he had been shot in the head and he later died.
As investigators retraced the path of the
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