Georgia Man Guns Down Childhood Friend After Touching Friend’s Wife Inappropriately

A Georgia man has been charged with murder when he gunned down his childhood friend after touching the friend’s wife inappropriately.

Buffy Cothern said that Brandon Frick touched her arm while she and her husband were giving him a ride in Waycross, WTLV reported. She said she was driving and pulled over, and her husband, 35-year-old Jacob Cothern, told his friend to get out of the car.

“Brandon pulled a gun, shot Jacob one time, and when I see my husband … He fell to the ground, and Brandon is telling him, ‘Get up and take me home,’” she said. “Jacob’s holding a hand up: ‘No, Brandon, please stop. We don’t have to do it like this.’ When he realized that Jacob couldn’t get up … He shot him again, and casually puts the gun back and just takes off walking. Like no remorse whatsoever.”

Police arrived on the scene and found Frick a short distance away, still armed.

Buffy Cothern told WTVL that her husband had turned his life around after spending a lot of time in prison. He’d been out for two years, the longest stretch in about a decade, and had dedicated his life to recovery from addiction. He landed a job with Waycross Public Works and earned three promotions in a year and planned to enroll in college and get a commercial driver’s license.

Frick, 29, is being held on one count each of malice murder, unauthorized discharge of a firearm, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, Law&Crime reported.

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[Featured image: Brandon Frick/Ware County Sheriff’s Office]