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Mother, community members tell Douglas County commissioners they received no answers after 2025 slaying
Summary
At the Jan. 5 work session, Kenya Mitchell and another Douglasville resident urged the Douglas County Board of Commissioners to act after what they called a six-month silence following the Jan. 29, 2025, killing of Mitchell’s son; commissioners said they would take the matter under advisement.
Kenya Mitchell told the Douglas County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 5 that her son, Malachi Mitchell, was murdered on Jan. 29, 2025, and that she received “six months of silence” from county officials. She said the county did not interview her and treated her like a suspect, then closed the case citing self-defense while her family had “0 answers.”
Mitchell said she filed a writ of mandamus in November seeking a coroner’s inquest and that both a Georgia Bureau of Investigation report and a private autopsy—conducted by Dr. Daniel Downs, she said—showed bullets were removed from…
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