"'Hit the floor - stay on the floor and don't get up,'" Doster said he told the man. Doster said he thought the man was going for the gun when he tried to turn over his mortally wounded accomplice. The man came out and started throwing bottles at Doster as the shop owner advanced on him, hitting Doster in the head with a bottle of soy sauce. The gunman collapsed behind a meat counter in the back of the store and the other man ran into a bathroom, apparently thinking it was an exit, said Turner, who has owned the store with Doster for eight years. Both Doster and Hunter said they shot at the robbers. The gunman fired a shot at Doster when he complained that Turner was too slow in surrendering the cash.ĭoster said the man tried firing several more times, but his gun jammed, so he withdrew a pistol from his pocket and began firing at the gunman as both would-be robbers ran toward the back of the store. The man wearing the cap pulled a gun while the other pushed Turned toward the cash register. Monday, one wearing a wig that concealed his face and another whose face was covered by a stocking cap. "That's what all the evidence reveals it to be," Smith said.Īccording to Doster and Turner, Doster's common-law wife of 30 years, Hill and Ballard entered their store at about 5:15 p.m. On Tuesday, Oglethorpe Sheriff Mike Smith said in his opinion, the double slaying appeared to have been a case of Doster and Turner defending their lives and property. James Fulcher, chief investigator for the Oglethorpe County Sheriff's Office, said Wednesday the investigation is now completely in the GBI's hands, but added, "I don't anticipate there will be any charges, but it is still under investigation." We will conduct a thorough investigation, weighing all the facts before reaching a decision on this case."Īmong those decisions is whether Doster and Turner killed the men in a justified act of self-defense.Ĭapt. We continue to conduct interviews and search for evidence in this case. "Be assured that this matter is not completed. "Because this is an ongoing investigation, I cannot provide information about who was wielding the gun," said Fred Stephens, special agent in charge of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's Athens office.
Investigators won't say which of the two teens had been armed when they entered the store Monday, as authorities are withholding certain information as the investigation continues. 25 after he gave a false name to Athens-Clarke police when questioned during an investigation at a Golden Pantry convenience store on West Broad Street.īallard drew a four-day jail sentence on the false-name charge and was released from the Clarke County Jail last week - only five days before he was killed in Hutchins. in Athens, was arrested once in Athens-Clarke County, according to court records.īallard was picked up on Nov. Hill's accomplice in Monday's attempted armed robbery, 17-year-old Calvin Dantrell Ballard of 715-D Hill St. 1, on charges of criminal trespass and obstruction of a law enforcement officer after he fled from an officer who wanted to question him upon being spotted at the Jack R. 9, when he was arrested at a Hawthorne Avenue residence on a charge of possessing cocaine with intent to distribute, according to court records.
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He had been free on $7,700 bond at the time.
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He was charged with sale of cocaine and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute after selling crack to an undercover Athens-Clarke police officer, according to the arrest warrant.Ī bench warrant was issued by a Clarke County Superior Court judge on Tuesday because Hill failed to appear in court on the drug charge, court records show.
Two weeks later, on March 25, Hill was arrested again, this time on Paris Street near the Rocksprings Homes housing project. Wells Homes, a west Athens public housing complex where police had increased their presence to combat street sales of drugs. One of the dead robbers, Michael Dewand Hill, 19, of 123 Laurel Drive, Athens, was arrested three different times in March 2004 on charges of criminal trespass when found at Jack R. The youths were killed after one of them shot at 62-year-old store owner Bobby Doster, who, along with his wife Gloria Turner, returned fire with guns they kept in their store, Shoat's Grocery & Package Store at Georgia Highway 77 and Hutchins-Wolkskin Road in the Hutchins community of Oglethorpe County.Īlthough Oglethorpe County authorities view the slayings as a clear case of self-defense, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into the shootings and has yet to make a determination. An Athens teen who was shot dead during an attempted armed robbery of a Hutchins grocery store Monday had compiled an extensive record of arrests on drug and other charges over the past year, while his younger accomplice had been arrested only once before on a lesser offense.
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