Grand jury indicts man in 2012 shooting of then Northside athlete

PERRY A Warner Robins man has been indicted in a 2012 shooting that injured a Northside High School football player.

Andre Lavar Slocumb, 30, was indicted Tuesday by a Houston County grand jury on aggravated assault and aggravated battery charges for allegedly shooting Austin Roberts in the side with a firearm Sept. 2, 2012, at a neighborhood gathering in Warner Robins.

Roberts, a senior defensive end at the time of the shooting, was treated and released from the Medical Center, Navicent Health, in Macon the same day.

Slocumb also was indicted on another charge of aggravated assault for firing shots at another person and for discharging his firearm into the vehicle of a third person, according to the indictment.

Slocumb was arrested this past Feb. 16 in connection with the shooting and remained jailed Wednesday without bond, according to online jail records.

On Sept. 2, 2012, Northside head football Coach Kevin Kinsler and his staff were at their regular Sunday meeting when a call came in about 6:30 p.m. that Roberts had been injured in a shooting.

Kinsler said then that his information was sketchy, but it was his understanding that Roberts was at a gathering that turned confrontational. Roberts was initially thought to have been shot in the back, Kinsler said.

Roberts was a Telegraph All-Middle Georgia selection for the 2011 season. He was a preseason All-Middle Georgia selection in 2012.

OTHER INDICTMENTS

In an unrelated case, a 38-year-old Kathleen man was indicted on charges of rape, aggravated child molestation, criminal attempt to commit aggravated child molestation, child molestation and enticing a child for indecent purposes.

Thaddeus Deshaun Holiday is accused of taking a girl under the age of 16 to a wooded area near the 100 block of Solomon Road in Houston County where he allegedly raped and molested her on Feb. 6, according to the indictment.

Houston County sheriff’s Capt. Randall Banks said the victim, who was 14 at the time, knew Holiday.

In an unrelated case, 45-year-old Turome Lanier Holiday of Kathleen was indicted on aggravated battery and aggravated assault charges for allegedly beating another man earlier this year.

Hayden Hinton, 65, suffered fractures to his nose, jaw and other facial bones in the Jan. 16 incident at his McArthur Boulevard home, according to the indictment.

A Warner Robins police incident report did not include the circumstances of the beating, stating only that an officer was dispatched to the home about 7:30 p.m. and met with the victim.

Also Tuesday, a Warner Robins man was indicted on charges of robbery by sudden snatching in three separate indictments.

Rashon Otis Bacon, 38, is accused of shoving an employee of the Express Oil Change at 200 Russell Parkway and grabbing $134 from a cash register on Jan. 21. He also was indicted on a misdemeanor assault charge for allegedly shoving the employee.

Bacon also is accused of snatching $260 from a cash register at the Dollar General at 604 N. Davis Drive on Jan. 22 and of grabbing $70 from a cash register at the Flash Foods at 10136 Ga. 247 on Jan. 22.

In an unrelated case, three 18-year-olds from Warner Robins each were indicted on charges of firing a handgun within 50 yards of a public street on July 22, 2015.

Devontae Albert Clark, Isaiah Scott Haynes and Terrence Dontae Jones, who were all 17 at the time of the incident near Laurel Woods Drive in Warner Robins, also were indicted on charges of possession of a pistol by a minor, carrying a weapon without a license and use of a handgun that had its serial number removed.

This story was originally published April 20, 2016 at 4:56 PM with the headline "Grand jury indicts man in 2012 shooting of then Northside athlete."