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At a press conference Thursday evening, sheriff Brad White indicated his suspicions that Frenchie Fambro was the likely shooter in a double murder/suicide earlier in the day on Fredonia Church Road.

Pending confirmation from GBI crime scene techs, White said it was likely Fambro, 55, shot Al Ogletree, 50, at his home at 159 Fredonia Church Road. Ogletree did not report for work Thursday morning and a relative checking on him found his body blocking the door. He had trauma to the head - likely a gunshot wound.

Fambro is also thought to have shot his stepfather, 88-year-old Charlie Sutton, who was found dead in a bed in his home at 234 Fredonia Church Road. Fambro was also dead in a bed in that home from what is likely a self-inflicted gunsot wound to the head. A gun was found near his body. Sutton's wife Annie is currently a superior court bailiff for the sheriff's department.

Fambro was invovled in another shooting here in 2011 but was one of the first people exonerated under Georgia's Stand Your Ground law which was new at the time.

Here is our online coverage from the day he was freed, Nov. 12, 2012:

For the second time, Frenchie Fambro has been cleared of any wrongdoing in connection with the July 21, 2011 shooting death of Christoper Martin Stepanski, 26.

Stepanski was shot and killed in the parking lot of JR Food Mart on College Drive in Barnesville.

Judge Bill Fears signed an order November 12, noting his finding that Fambro shot Stepanski in self defense. Testimony and forensics indicated Stepanski was in - or very near - Fambro's car when Fambo fired, striking Stepanski twice.

Judge Fears' order grants Fambro immunity from prosecution in the case.

Fambro, 49, had originally been charged with murder but chief magistrate William Thomas dropped that charge at a hearing on September 8, 2011. Fambro was later indicted on one count of involuntary manslaughter - the charge which Judge Fears has effectively dismissed.

Fambro has long been free on bond.

A Lamar County couple is stranded at their home at 181 Ponderosa Lane after heavy rains burst a dam adjacent to their driveway, cutting a 12-15 foot ravine through their only means of access to their property.

James and Vivian Parker said a neighbor measured over seven inches of rain before the dam burst sometime Sunday night. The half-acre pond yielded only two fish after it was suddenly drained. A considerable amount of water is still running through the waterway and fire chief Douglas Matthews is trying to find some help for the couple. "It is going to take someone with an excavator," Matthews said.

If you can help or know someone who can, contact the Parkers at 770.358.2234 or chief Matthews at 678.603.5630.

Investigators from the Georgia Department of Revenue and Lamar sheriff's deputies were back at the Matthews property at 900 Johnstonville Road Wednesday morning. John David and Latitia Matthews have been taken to jail on two counts each of tax evasion. More charges are possible. [Full Story »]