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Dunbar murder trial underway with 2 defendants, 1 acknowledged shooter
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Defendants Thomas Isreal Cooper, left, and Brendyn Laroy Carter stand as the jury enters the courtroom on the first day of their trial on Monday, Oct. 18 for murder in the shooting death of Dexter Dunbar in Sept. 2019 .
Defendants Thomas Isreal Cooper, left, and Brendyn Laroy Carter stand as the jury enters the courtroom on the first day of their trial on Monday, Oct. 18, for murder in the shooting death of Dexter Dunbar in Sept. 2019 . The previously conjoined paths of the two friends from Sylvania parted Thursday afternoon when a Bulloch County Superior Court jury found Cooper guilty of the murder of Dexter L. Dunbar II and Carter not-guilty on all charges.
The trial of Brendyn Laroy Carter and Thomas Isreal Cooper, both facing murder charges in the Sept. 15, 2019, death of Dexter L. Dunbar Jr., got underway Monday in Bulloch County Superior Court with attorneys on both sides stating that Cooper fired the shots that killed Dunbar.
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