Man Faces 32 Charges After Police Pursuit

A Georgia man is facing 32 different charges after a police pursuit ended in a fatal crash.

Deputies with the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office were called to assist the Georgia State Patrol with an uncooperative motorist in the early morning hours of Friday, September 10, 2021.  

The Trooper advised that he had an uncooperative male and that he needed assistance quickly. Paulding Deputies immediately responded to the scene to assist with the uncooperative male driver who would not lower his window and provide the requested information. The male driver, who was later determined to be under the influence of alcohol, failed to comply with the Deputy and Trooper’s requests to roll down his window and provide his license and other pertinent information. At the conclusion of the incident it was discovered that the male driver had a suspended driver’s license as well.  It was then that the Paulding Deputy broke the driver’s side window out of the vehicle.

Once the window was broken out, the male driver fled and subsequently ran over the Trooper’s foot and a pursuit ensued. Deputies assisted with the pursuit until the Precision Immobilization Technique (PIT) was performed by the Trooper causing the vehicle to crash. Deputies and the Trooper immediately rendered aid to all of the occupants of the vehicle after the crash.  It was later determined that an unrestrained male juvenile was fatally injured in the incident.     

As a result of the fatal pursuit, 35-year-old Charlie Wilson Moore was arrested and charged by the Georgia State Patrol with 32 offenses.  It was then discovered that Moore was wanted out of the Henry County Sheriff’s Office and the Covington Police Department for various charges. 

  1. Murder During the Commission of a Felony
  2. Homicide by Vehicle in 1st Degree
  3. Fleeing and Attempting to Elude  
  4. DUI – Alcohol
  5. Open Container in Motor Vehicle
  6. Endangering a Child While DUI of Alcohol or Drugs
  7. Failure to Obey Traffic Control Device
  8. Failure to Obey Stop Sign
  9. Too Fast for Conditions
  10. Obstruction of LEO (M)
  11. Aggravated Assault Against a Peace Officer (vehicle: at, toward person)
  12. Reckless Driving
  13. Failure to Obey Stop Sign
  14. Child Safety Restraint
  15. Speeding
  16. Failure to Obey Stop Sign
  17. Giving Wrong Signal
  18. Illegal Stop/Stand/Park Where Prohibited
  19. Improper Turn at Intersection
  20. Giving Wrong Signal
  21. Giving Wrong Signal
  22. Giving Wrong Signal
  23. Improper/Erratic Lane Change
  24. Failure to Maintain Lane/improper Driving on Road
  25. Failure to Obey Stop Sign
  26. No License on Person
  27. Distracted Driving – Physically Holding or Supporting Wireless Device
  28. Giving Wrong Signal
  29. Driving While License Suspended or Revoked (M)
  30. Aggressive Driving
  31. Failure to Obey Stop Sign
  32. Littering from Motor Vehicle

As a point of clarification to the above listed charges; in the instances where you see the same charges multiple times, these are all separate infractions where Moore committed the same offense multiple times at different locations during the pursuit.   

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