5:00 PM on Friday, December 2, 2011 Jorelys Rivera is playing at the playground at her apartment home.\u00a0 She leaves the playground to get some drinks for her and her friends and is not seen again.<\/p>\n
Later that evening Canton Police start their search for Jorelys.\u00a0 Searching through the night for the missing 7-year child, on Saturday they set up a command post at the apartment complex.\u00a0 On Sunday they continue searching and on Monday they bring in the Georgia Child Abduction Response Team.\u00a0 They started checking local sex offenders.<\/p>\n
12:30 PM on Monday, December 5, 2011 the searchers find Jorelys\u2019 body in a compaction dumpster at the apartment complex.\u00a0 A preliminary examination shows that Jorelys had been sexually assaulted and beaten to death.<\/p>\n
December 7, 2011 the 20 year old maintenance worker at the apartment complex, Ryan Brunn, is arrested and charged with Jorelys murder.\u00a0 \u00a0Ryan had no prior arrests or convictions and was thought well of by friends and acquaintances.<\/p>\n
Not much is heard about this case until January 15, 2012 when Ryan Brunn appears in court.\u00a0 Cherokee prosecutors put together a plea deal with Brunn to take the death penalty off the table if he pleads guilty.\u00a0 Brunn pleads guilty to the assault and murder of Jorelys Rivera.\u00a0 Brunn relates the events of the crime in a cold and dispassionate voice.\u00a0 The Judge sentences Brunn to life in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n
Brunn is quickly transferred from the Cherokee County Jail to a state facility in Jackson Georgia.<\/p>\n
January 17, 2012 Ryan Brunn is found unresponsive in his cell at 4:15 PM.\u00a0 He is taken to a hospital and pronounced dead at 5:37 PM.<\/p>\n
Cases like this almost never play out this fast.\u00a0 In just over a month after the crime justice has been served.\u00a0 Cherokee County officials were able to get Brunn to plead guilty by taking the death penalty off the table.\u00a0 This allowed him to be brought to court and plead out in a relatively short time.\u00a0 Some of us at work speculated how long Brunn would survive in prison before one of the other inmates got to him.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t work exactly out like that, but it was incredibly fast, only two days later Brunn was dead by his own hand.\u00a0 He took the coward\u2019s way out, but that\u2019s OK, he won\u2019t be doing any more crimes where he\u2019s going!<\/p>\n
Kudos to the Cherokee County and Canton City authorities for closing this case so quickly.\u00a0 It can take 20 years or more for murders to be brought to justice and executed.\u00a0 This case only took just over a month.<\/p>\n
There was some additional fallout; the Chief of Police of Canton lost his job over this case.\u00a0 Apparently some folks didn\u2019t think he took the original call of the missing child seriously enough.\u00a0 On Saturday he spent the afternoon watching the \u201cDogs\u201d football game on TV at the command post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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