Gordon County deputy sheriffs were recently dispatched to a home on Knight Road in the Ranger community in response to a report of an assault.
Initiating an investigation, deputies discovered the victim, a 39 year old woman, had been badly beaten about her face and head with a blunt instrument.
The woman identified her domestic partner as her attacker. He had fled the scene before deputies arrived. The officers removed the victim and her children from the scene to a safe place, and then began searching for the suspect. Yesterday morning (January 13), deputies found the suspect, identified as one Jeffery Scott McCullough, age 36, of Ranger hiding out at the residence of a third party.
He was apprehended without incident, charged with Aggravated Assault, Terroristic Threats, and Cruelty to Children (3rd degree).
An acquaintance of McCullough’s, identified as on Joshua O. Grizzle, age 36, of Ranger, was arrested along with McCullough for aiding and abetting McCullough in his efforts to elude law enforcement officers.
Both defendants are lodged in the Gordon County Jail.
