Douglas DA: Dewey Green Case 'Shook Very Core of Community' - Patch.com
Douglas County District Attorney Brian Fortner said justice was served for victim’s family in the guilty verdict and sentencing of Dewey Green in the murder case that “shook the very core of our community. , was sentenced Monday by Judge David T. Emerson to a sentence of life in prison without parole plus an additional 40 years for running over and killing Douglas County grandmother Janice Pitts, 53, on June 25, 2014 on Ga. Highway 5 near Interstate... Dewey Green Sentenced for Road Rage Death of Grandmother Dewey Green Convicted of Murder in Fatal Traffic Encounter Woman Killed in Bizarre Traffic Incident Trial Begins for Ala. Man Accused of Running Over Douglasville Grandmother Last Friday, a Douglas County jury convicted Green on all charges against him, including one count of malice murder, three counts of felony murder and three counts of aggravated assault. “This case shook the very core of our community,” Fortner said in a statement posted on Facebook. “Janice Pitts was doing nothing but driving down the road with her family before the defendant killed her. Green was traveling from the Birmingham area in a Chevrolet Silverado and exited I-20 at Highway 5 shortly after 2 p. m. on June 25, 2014, when prosecutors say he came up behind Pitts’ slow-moving Lincoln Navigator SUV and began to repeatedly bump... Source: patch.com
