Four hours before a two-time convicted child molester opened fire at a birthday party and killed two men, Whitfield County, Ga., deputies were told to be on the lookout for him.
But Whitfield County sheriff’s Capt. Rick Swiney said no one was told David Hartline’s former girlfriend had called and asked for police just hours before he returned and shot her father and ex-husband. He also said the sheriff’s office didn’t know Hartline was a convicted felon.
“All we were given was a general lookout on an intoxicated driver,” he said. “If we had been sent to the residence there might have been a different outcome.”
Mindy Bullard, 35, made the call to 911 at 4:35 p.m. Thursday, saying, “I need the police at my house right now” because her ex-boyfriend Hartline was disturbing her 8-year-old daughter’s birthday party at 1751 Rainbow Circle in the Dawnville community, an audio recording shows.
Bullard had been trying to end a tumultuous six-month relationship with Hartline when she told him not to attend the family birthday party, Whitfield County Sheriff Scott Chitwood said.