On the night of June 15, 2024, Linda Diane Cross, 60, was shot and killed in the 500 block of Prince Road in Dixie, Georgia. Deputies from the Brooks County Sheriff’s Office found Cross at the scene at about 10:50 p.m.; she was pronounced dead after sustaining gunshot wounds. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was called in to assist, and an autopsy was scheduled with the GBI Medical Examiner’s Office to determine cause and manner of death.

Authorities arrested 65-year-old Dixie resident Nathaniel Brinson and booked him into the Brooks County Jail on multiple charges including murder, aggravated assault, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. The investigation remains active and the case will be referred to the Southern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office for prosecution once complete.

Linda Diane Cross, known to some as Wanky, is remembered in her obituary as a fun-loving family woman who enjoyed making people smile. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to come forward.