Chattooga County Chief Deputy Kevin Woods wears the department’s first body camera at the sheriff’s office last week.LYERLY, Ga. – Herbert Morehead couldn’t drive past that house at the end of his street without some sort of argument.
Morehead, 60, always yelled at the occupants of 54 Taliaferro Springs Road. Or they yelled at him. Each side threatened the other and a couple times a week, Lyerly Security Guard — the town doesn’t have police officers — John Jones drove to that house to keep the peace.
“You’ve got to know these people,” Jones said of Morehead’s neighbors. “They can get you agitated real quick. That’s the type of people they are. They don’t care what they say to you, what they do.”
One night last March, Morehead found garbage in the road in front of that house. He kicked a cup into the yard and yelled at the woman who lived there. She later told police that Morehead drove around the block, came back and tried to run her over.
It’s unclear whether that actually happened. But after the confrontation, Morehead drove to Jones’ house to complain. The family followed — five of them, Jones said, all in an old Georgia State Patrol car that they somehow acquired.