[Last Refuge] Since last December, a Douglasville, Georgia neighborhood has been gripped in fear due to racially charged messages that have anonymously been left in the mailboxes of residents of color, reports Fox News. But now police said they have made an arrest and the alleged culprit is not who the neighbors expected.Wednesday, the Douglasville Police Department confirmed that they had filed criminal charges against
Criminal charges were filed against Terresha Lucas, a 30-year-old Black woman
In an unexpected turn of events, this week authorities in Georgia revealed they believe a Black woman is behind the "racially charged" notes that have been terrorizing her neighborhood.
Since last December, a Douglasville, Georgia neighborhood has been gripped in fear due to racially charged messages that have anonymously been left in the mailboxes of
Of course not.
Wednesday, the Douglasville Police Department confirmed that they had filed criminal charges against Terresha Lucas. Lucas is a 30-year-old Black woman who they believe threatened people in her community while posing as a Ku Klux Klan member.
In the notes, threats were made to burn down homes and kill their occupants. The author of these disturbing messages also made it a point to describe themselves as "a six-feet-tall white male with a long, red beard who did not live in the neighborhood."
After the initial messages in December, more messages popped back up in the spring.
"By mid-March, we really didn’t have anything to go on," explained Detectives Nathan Shumaker who spent months going door-to-door while investigating the case.
After six months of inactivity, the final messages started back up in September. At that point, it appeared the investigation had hit a dead end until Labor Day when investigators discovered evidence that linked the letters to Lucas.