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Forsyth native killed on motorcycle
A Macon man was killed
early Tuesday morning when
he left Hwy. 41 and was
thrown from his motorcycle.
Kevin Anderson, 30, of
Macon, was driving north
on Hwy 41 just south of Hill
Road when he veered off the
road on the left side around
6:30 a.m. Here’s what hap
pened next according to the
Monroe County sheriff’s
office: the motorcycle then
struck a root in the ditch,
ejecting Anderson from the
motorcycle and flipping it
several times.
A passerby called 911 when
they saw the unattended
motorcycle lying on the side
of Hwy. 41. When deputies ar
rived they found the wrecked
motorcycle and the drivers
body close to the woodline.
Anderson was pronounced
deceased on scene.
The accident is under inves
tigation.
According to his Facebook
page, Anderson worked at
Bass Pro Shop warehouse. An
derson went to Mary Persons
and grew up on Reedy Creek
Road.
ANDERSON
Hospital adds oxygen for COVID
Monroe County Hospital has plenty of oxygen for the current surge in COVID patients after get
ting a new 900 gallon tank last week. The hospital had run low on oxygen two weeks ago due to
a flood of COVID patients needing 02. So the hospital had its oxygen supplier, AirGas, install a
900-gallon tank to replace the hospital s 300-gallon tank. Now we re good, said Mac Brown,
chairman of the Monroe County Hospital Authority. “They were having to refill us every 24 hours
and I think they got tired of that. Brown said unlike two weeks ago the hospital does have some
vacancies for more patients. However he said the COVID patients they do have are much sicker
than before.
Forsyth man arrested
for stalking ex-wife's home
By Steve Reece
stevereece@gmail.com
A Forsyth man was arrested on
Torbert Road for stalking around
10:49 p.m. on Sept. 3 by Sgt. Chris
Sherrell after his ex-wife reported he
had threatened to kill himself in her
home. The sheriff’s office reported
that the ex wife had a temporary
restraining order against her ex-hus
band, James Mercer, but he forced
his way into her house.
When Sherrell arrived at the home
at 299 Torbert Road, he found it to
be unsecured with the door wide open and the
only response he got was from four barking
dogs. He then entered the house and found
every light to be turned on, all the sinks were
running water and the refrigera
tor door was wide open. The blinds
had also been pulled down from the
windows.
The ex wife arrived and said she
was there to get some clothes and
then leave for the night because
she feared what her ex-husband
might do. While she was gathering
her items, Mr. Mercer slowly drove
down the road and stopped directly
in front of the home. Sherrell then
had him exit his truck and arrested him
for aggravated stalking and took him to the
Monroe County Jail.
MERCER
Forsyth man
gets 20 years
in prison for
putting wife
into the ICU
By Steve Reece
stevereece@gmail.com
A man who pled guilty to beating his wife in a
camper on Mize Street was sentenced to 20 years
in prison on Aug.
17. According to re
ports, Inv. Kemeyan
Colvard was called by
Maj. Jim Wallen with
the Lincoln County
Sheriff’s Office
regarding a domestic
dispute that began
on Friday, Sept. 27,
2019, and continued
through the weekend.
Renita Latay Book
er later told deputies
her husband, Richard
Lane Booker, brought
vodka to their home
at 85 Mize Street
and began drinking
after work. She said they sat down to talk, and the
conversation became heated because he began
accusing her of lying and letting other people in
the house while he was gone. He also accused her
of sleeping with meth heads in the neighborhood.
She said he tried to force her to leave but she
had nowhere to go. After the argument Richard
wanted to have sex and afterwards Richard began
slapping and beating her.
She told deputies when Richard returned from
work the next day, he again began accusing her of
cheating with a neighbor. She said he then started
dragging her through the camper and beating
her, trying to make her leave. She also said he tied
a belt around her neck and tried to choke her
on Sept. 29, but she managed to get her hand in
between the belt so that it could not go all the way
around her neck. Renita said she was afraid and
thought Richard was trying to kill her.
On Sept. 30, Renita called her family in Lincoln-
ton while Richard was at work. They took her to
the Doctors Hospital in Augusta where she was
admitted to the intensive care unit with broken
ribs, a laceration on her right thumb, carpet burns
on her top and lower back, a laceration on her left
hip, a swollen, black right eye, and a cut on her left
ear.
Based on her statements along with photos of
her injuries, deputies were able to obtain an arrest
warrant on Richard for aggravated assault as well
as a search warrant. Inv. Sam Leggett went to Plant
Scherer, where he was working for a subcontrac
tor, and had him summoned to the security office
but he never arrived and couldn’t be found.
Lt. Jarred Duncan, deputy Nicholas Ortiz, and
Leggett then went to Booker's camper and a
neighbor, Calvin Partridge, who gave Booker
rides back and forth to work, told them he had
dropped Booker off at the Monroe County
See PRISON Page 7A
BOOKER