ALBANY, Ga. — An appeals judge in Georgia has been found shot dead behind his Albany home, but officials do not believe it was a homicide.
News outlets report Albany police were dispatched Saturday morning and found 60-year-old Judge Stephen Goss in a wooded area behind his residence dead from a gunshot wound.
Dougherty County District Attorney Greg Edwards says the investigation is ongoing, but it doesn’t appear to be a homicide.
Goss was appointed by then-Gov. Nathan Deal to serve as a judge on the Court of Appeals of Georgia in August 2018. Before that, he served as a Superior Court judge in Albany for nearly 20 years.
A statement from Chief Justice Harold D. Melto says Goss brought “dignity and compassion to the delivery of justice all across this great state.”
The Associated Press
