AUGUSTA, Georgia – An Augusta man has been sentenced after a jury found him guilty of various domestic violence crimes, the District Attorney’s Office stated on Thursday.
According to District Attorney Jared Williams, 45-year-old Augusta resident Jameel Thomson “stood trial this week for the March 16, 2021 beating and August 8, 2022 kidnapping and shooting of his romantic partner.”
According to the investigation, the victim’s orbital eye bone was damaged in the 2021 incident, and Thompson shot her in the shoulder the next year, shattering her collarbone.
Thompson was found guilty of all charges, including kidnapping with bodily injury, home invasion, hijacking a motor vehicle, aggravated battery-family violence, and aggravated assault. On October 30, he was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
