45-year-old Richard Harold Gear is accused of shooting 21-year-old Bryan Joseph Mough after his daughters, ages 17 and 19, called him on their cellphone to say the Winder man was following them from the scene of the mishap between their car and his motorcycle.
Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry tells WSB's Jennifer Griffies the suspect was waiting at the end of his driveway with a pistol when the victim drove by. After he turned around and passed the house a second time, Gear fired three shots from a pistol, striking Mough once in the back.
Mough was pronounced dead a short time later at Athens Regional Medical Center.
Murder charges were filed against Gear, even though he claimed the shooting was self defense. Berry says Gear was arrested after investigators determined Mough was shot in the back and never set foot on the suspect's property.
Gear is being held without bond in the Oconee County jail in Watkinsville.
The last murder in Oconee County occurred in 2002.
26 February 2008
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