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Richard Gear Sentenced in Fatal Shooting of Cyclist

By David Lohr

As a result of all the true crime events that have transpired in recent months, I have had to neglect updates in reference to a few of the cases that I had previously covered. One of those cases involves 45-year-old Richard Harold Gear, a man from Bogart, Georgia who was arrested last year after he shot and killed 21-year-old Bryan Joseph Mough, a motorcyclist who had followed Gear?s teenage daughters home from a department store. From the start, Gear claimed the shooting was in self-defense; however, a grand jury disagreed, and indicted Gear on murder charges. The case has since made its way through court, and a verdict has been announced. The case in question dates back to Feb. 25, 2008. On that day, police say Gear's two daughters, ages 17 and 19, called their father from their cell phones and told him that they were on their way home from a store, and that Bryan was following them on a motorcycle...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Report Daily on January 15, 2009 (boomark / email).