A grand jury has returned a murder indictment against the pair accused of killing 13-year-old Buddy Brown Jr. at an Augusta apartment complex.
Brown was reportedly living with his father at the Richmond Summit downtown when he went outside to pick up a Doordash delivery and never returned.
Gregory Louis Thornton, 34, is charged with malice murder in the death of Brown, who was shot at least once just outside the Broad Street complex.
Thornton was a fugitive for more than a month, leading law enforcement to Hartford County, Md., where he was from then Franklin County in central Pennsylvania, where he was captured in May by U.S. Marshals.
Thornton and co-defendant Tia Shante Jackson, 34, are each charged with two counts of felony murder, hijacking a motor vehicle and gun possession. Jackson was arrested a few days after the homicide in West Virginia, where she had a former address.
Thornton has a prior felony conviction for cocaine possession in West Virginia, according to the indictment.
Police have said Jackson was driving the pair in a Chevrolet Camaro and they likely followed the Doordash driver and attempted to carjack her Dodge Journey, but were unsuccessful. They then went to the Smart Grocery on Wrightsboro Road, where Thornton used a gun to carjack a man’s Hyundai Elantra.
Among dozens of indictments returned Tuesday, prosecutors also brought charges against multiple inmates at the Charles B. Webster Detention Center.
Two prisoners, Marcus Dante Gifford and Ian Gemell Bonner, were indicted for mutiny in a penal institution, for allegedly resisting, opposing and assailing deputy jailers as well as obstructing officers in two May incidents. Another prisoner, Detallion Williams, is charged with possessing a shank.
In an unrelated indictment, Major Sarrell Brown, is formerly accused of photographing under a woman’s clothing at Dollar Tree in June.
