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Forsyth police: response was
right on night of Proctor murder
By Will Davis
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The Forsyth Police Department says
an internal probe has determined that
officers did nothing wrong while re
sponding to reports that Tori Proctor
was missing in the earning morning
hours of March 23.
Monroe County deputies found
Proctor dead in a car at Lake Juliette
and her boyfriend was charged with
murder 8 hours after the family con
tacted Forsyth police.
Police chief Eddie Harris issued
a press release on Monday saying
that his officers only erred in telling
Proctors family that they would have
to wait 24 hours before putting her
name in the state-wide computer
system as missing. Harris said they
should have said it was 12 hours. But
he noted that the family never filed a
missing person report anyway.
Here’s Harris’ account of what hap
pened: Proctor’s parents called police
around 1:47 a.m„ and city officers
went to 235 Union Hill Drive. There,
Proctor’s parents said they had not
heard from their 21-year-old daugh
ter in several hours. Her mother,
Latosha Proctor, said that Tori Proc
tor had called her earlier but the call
had been disconnected before they
could talk. Then, she received a text
message from Tori around 8:55 p.m.
saying she was on her way home. It
was now 2 a.m. and she still wasn’t
home and they hadn’t heard from her.
Latosha Proctor said her boyfriend
Jadarius Watts
lived in Union
Hill Apartments
12C and asked
them to check
to see if she was
there. But no one
answered the
door. Officers
had dispatch
ers call both of
their cell num
bers, but still no
answer. Next,
the officers had
a dispatcher call
Watts’ mother to come unlock the
door to his apartment. Officers asked
dispatchers if they could ping Tori’s
phone. Dispatch said they could not
because Tori’s parents had said they
didn’t think it was a life or death situ
ation.
Officers determined that Tori Proc
tor’s car was at her parents’ home. So
officers patrolled the area looking for
Watts’ black Chevy Malibu. While
patrolling they saw Tori’s parents in
their car on Lee Street. The Proctors
said that Mrs. Watts had opened the
apartment and no one was there.
The Proctors said they were going
home and that Tori would probably
call in the morning. The officer said
because Tori was an adult, they could
not enter her name into the state
wide computer system until 24 hours
had passed. The next morning, her
parents called the sheriff’s office and
they were able to work the case as a
missing person
because she had
been missing for
12 hours, said
Harris.
But the next
morning, Proctor
was still miss
ing and so the
family called the
sheriff’s office
around 8:40 a.m.
Deputies traced a
cell phone of one
of them to the
Brownlee Road
area of northern Monroe County,
setting off a massive search for the
phone. That led next to the Holly
Grove boat ramp off Juliette Road on
Lake Juliette.
At about 11:57 a.m„ deputies found
the Malibu at the Holly Grove Boat
Ramp in Monroe County backed in
a parking space. Watts was sitting in
the front seat of the vehicle. Watts
exited the vehicle and deputies began
a pat down search. Watts then started
running and jumped into Lake Ju
liette. He was unable to swim and was
rescued by the deputies. Watts was
handcuffed. Proctor was found dead
in the Malibu. Watts was taken to the
Monroe County Jail and charged with
Obstruction of Law Enforcement,
Possession of a Pirearm During the
Commission of a Felony, Kidnapping,
Aggravated Assault, and Murder.
The sheriff s office says Tori Proctor, left,
was killed by the father of her child,
Jadarius Watts, right.
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