Crime & Safety

Accused Army Veteran Shooter Faces Court Date

Amstutz reportedly faces charge in addition to Suwanee case.

The man who is charged with shooting his former Army buddy last month in Suwanee now has a court date in Gwinnett this month and reportedly faces an additional charge.

Timothy Franklin Amstutz of Lawrenceville is scheduled to appear in Gwinnett Magistrate Court on Friday, Jan. 13. He is being held without bond at the Gwinnett Detention Center on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

on Dec. 15, then fled to North Carolina, where he was apprehended by law enforcement the next day, police said. Amstutz reportedly fired from outside McCurrie's house while the victim was playing video games, as his wife and children were in their beds. Doctors later said the video-game headphones may have saved McCurrie's life.

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Also, the Gwinnett Daily Post reported that Amstutz faces a charge of armed sexual assault dating to the same day as the McCurrie shooting. Amstutz reportedly held a rifle and pistol to a woman's head and forced her to have sex with him at his Lawrenceville home. That attack reportedly happened between 6 and 10:30 p.m., the warrant states.

The McCurrie shooting reportedly was triggered by a personal dispute about three weeks before, but left McCurrie and family puzzled.

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"We don't know why" the shooting happened, said Rosemary Vollmar, McCurrie's mother in law. Vollmar had just moved to Suwanee from Texas about three weeks before the shooting.


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