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Viral Tik Tok couple convicted of murder now facing life in prison

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Eric Dodds and “Johntae” Kavon Collier were found guilty of felony murder and several other counts in the murder of Dakota Bradshaw, according to District Attorney Clayton M. Fuller.

  “They’re looking at a minimum sentence of life with the possibility of parole plus five years. And then the maximum sentence would be life without the possibility of parole,” says DA Fuller.

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  Dajah Larissa Collins, the 3rd suspect, pleaded guilty to Bradshaw’s murder. Darius Woods, the 4th suspect, was arrested on November 4th of last year. His case is still pending.

“Dakota Bradshaw was gunned down in our community in a senseless act of violence,” says Fuller.

On August 1st of 2022  Walker County Sherriff’s deputies and Rossville Police Department officers responded to a shots fired call on East Peachtree Street in Rossville, Georgia around 1 pm. Deputies and officers arrived on the scene and found that Dakota Bradshaw had been shot inside his home. Bradshaw was taken to Erlanger Hospital where he died.

“Dakota Bradshaw was gunned down in our community in a senseless act of violence,” says Fuller.

“This case stretched into three states, we had three defendants in two different states, and the murder happened here in Georgia,” says GBI special agent Joe Montgomery.

Dodds and Collier’s viral Tik Tok accounts became a part of the investigation. Over 70 search warrants were written during the investigation to search ceaseless social media accounts and collected phone data to pursue the defendants from Huntsville to Chattanooga and where the murder occurred.

“To Dakota’s family, we know this doesn’t bring Dakota back, but justice was done and we hope this brings some measure of peace to the family,” says DA Fuller.

Dakota was top of his class and wanted to pursue a career in cybersecurity, said the DA.

 




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