Police believe 22-year-old Lindsey Sparkles Lashayla became angry at the way 21-year-old Kim Kilgore was driving. Lashayla allegedly followed Kim to her apartment and then shot and killed her. Police do not believe that Kilgore and Lashayla had ever met before.
If the races were reversed this story would be a major national news story as a “racial hate crime.” Instead it is quarantined to local Georgia news while avoiding racial motives.
GEORGIA (Cobb County) – Cobb County police have arrested and charged a suspect in the fatal shooting of a college student following a road rage incident in Kennesaw early Friday morning.
Police identified the suspect as Sparkles Lindsey, 22, of Austell. Cobb jail records, however, identify her as Lindsey Sparkles Lashayla. She has been charged with murder and aggravated assault and is being held in the Cobb jail.
Police say Lashayla fatally shot Kim Kilgore, 21, with a handgun in the parking lot at the Shiloh Green Apartments off Shiloh Road. Kilgore was transported to WellStar Kennestone Hospital, where she later died. (continue reading)
Police say Lashayla fatally shot Kim Kilgore, 21, with a handgun in the parking lot at the Shiloh Green Apartments off Shiloh Road. Kilgore was transported to WellStar Kennestone Hospital, where she later died. (continue reading)