Army Vet Shooting Suspect Also Indicted on Rape Charge

The Gwinnett man already charged with shooting a former Army friend at the friend's Suwanee home last December now has been indicted for rape and sexual assault for a separate incident on the same evening last December.

Timothy Franklin Amstutz, now being held without bond in the Gwinnett Detention Center, faces trial on a total of 12 counts. No trial date has been set; the indictments were returned last week by the Gwinnett Grand Jury.

Amstutz is charged with shooting Carmon McCurrie at McCurrie's Grand Park Drive home on the evening of Dec. 15. McCurrie was playing video games in his living room while his children, two of whom attend Peachtree Ridge High, were in bed. Police say Amstutz fired from outside the house, apparently with a shotgun.

Also, Amstutz faces counts of rape, three of aggravated assault and one of possession of a firearm/knife during a felony over the incident at his former Suwanee Roberts Court home. The defendant was apprehended in North Carolina the day after the incidents and later extradited to Gwinnett.

McCurrie, who was deployed in the 2003 U.S. infantry invasion of Iraq, . He has had reconstructive surgery on his head and face, and two surgeries on his right leg. He has been unable to enter rehab.

Doctors have said that the video-game headphones that McCurrie was wearing may have saved his life.