On March 13, 2018, a vehicle on Sterling Wells Road in Thomson, Georgia, left the roadway and struck a tree. Inside were Cheri Denise Stone, 42, and her fiancé, 43-year-old Kenyetta Germany, both of Evans, Georgia. First responders initially treated the scene as a single-vehicle crash, but autopsies at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab in Decatur determined both had died from gunshot wounds and their deaths were ruled a double homicide.

The McDuffie County Sheriff’s Office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation jointly investigated. On August 20, 2018, authorities charged 39-year-old Chet Kent of Thomson with two counts of murder, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; Kent was already in custody in Thomas County on unrelated charges when the McDuffie County charges were filed and he was transferred to the McDuffie County Jail.

Cheri Denise Stone, known as Stoney, was born in Augusta on February 18, 1976, attended school in McDuffie County, belonged to Stone Springfield African Methodist Episcopal Church, and worked as an assembler for John Deere. Does anyone have information about Sterling Wells Road or the evening of March 13, 2018, that could help investigators?