DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A mother of four and nurse living in DeKalb County has been identified as the victim in a shooting earlier this month.
Officers responded to a home on Hambrick Road around 2 a.m. on July 12 where they found Brandy Bess dead from several gunshot wounds.
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Shortly after, Anthony Ware was located and arrested. He is being held in the DeKalb County Jail on a murder charge.
Both Bess and Ware were from the Omaha, Nebraska area, her family confirmed.
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Bess’ family told KETV that she and Ware had been seeing each other on and off for about a year and he would often visit her in Georgia.
“She didn’t... she didn’t deserve it,” her mother Sherita Partee told the ABC station. “I guess you just don’t really know people.... anybody can be a monster. Anybody can be that hateful that they feel that you have to take somebody’s life.”
Ware is being held without bond.
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