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Murder suspect denied bond
Man faces 46 charges, some cases similar to Ernie Walthour death
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Terrence Gabriel Jones faces 46 charges, including five alleging murder, in Liberty County Superior Court. - photo by Photo provided.
Facing more than 46 charges — including five for murder — Terrence Gabriel Jones was denied bond Monday morning in Liberty County Superior Court. Jones was arrested in October after Liberty County Sheriff Steve Sikes and Hinesville Police Chief George Stagmeier formed a joint task force to gather information in the July shooting death of youth basketball mentor and coach Ernie Walthour.Walthour reportedly was killed during an attempted armed robbery as he was leaving a poker game.Although no one has been charged in Walthour’s death, the investigation yielded sufficient evidence to arrest Jones in connection with other cases ranging from armed robbery, aggravated assault, the murder of Orlejandro Marquise Smalls and the armed robbery and aggravated assault of eight other people who were at a poker game the night of Smalls’ death in October 2010. Smalls and Walthour reportedly knew each other, and the cases’ modi operandi were too similar to overlook, according to Sikes.The task force also uncovered sufficient evidence to allow the grand jury to move forward with several other cases, including the double homicide of Jeneral Morgan and Rolando McIntosh and the Feb. 9, 1996, aggravated assault on Richard Hlliery in Walthourville.
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