Slain Gwinnett deputy previously lost son in hit-and-run crash
Forsyth County investigators said they believe Tamara Tuitt-Bartlett was killed by her boyfriend in a Saturday shooting.
Gwinnett County master deputy Tamara Tuitt-Bartlett was killed while off duty, according to investigators. (Courtesy of Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office)
For more than four years, Tamara Tuitt-Bartlett lived with the pain of not knowing who killed her son in a hit-and-run crash.
On June 2, 2021, Richard Bartlett III was trying to secure a mattress on top of a vehicle when the 23-year-old was struck, Johns Creek police said at the time. His mother was standing beside him.
Over the weekend, tragedy befell the family again. This time, it was the grieving mother who was killed.
Forsyth County investigators said they believe Tuitt-Bartlett was shot to death Saturday evening by her boyfriend, who also turned the gun on her teenage son. The son ran to a neighbor’s home for help. By the time deputies arrived, Tuitt-Bartlett was dead in her home’s upstairs bedroom, the sheriff’s office said. She was 49.
Tuitt-Bartlett was also a member of law enforcement. The 20-year veteran of the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office and master deputy was not working when she was killed.
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