Butts pleads to manslaughter for 2024 killing

Three years and four months after his arrest, a Milledgeville man entered a guilty plea to the shooting death of 20-year-old woman, also from Milledgeville. Both were attending a party in Jones County.Jeremy Xavier Butts, 30, was sentenced Sept. 12 in Jones County Superior Court to 20 years with the first 15 years to serve in confinement for the lesser-included offense of voluntary mansl...

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