Politics & Government
Bridge Named After Late Acworth Teen
A one-lane bridge over Kellogg Creek along Kemp Drive was named after 15-year-old Katie Hamlin, who was murdered in 2002.
The Cherokee County Commission on Tuesday voted to honor the life of an Acworth girl whose life was taken by another teenager.
The commission unanimously approved a request from Joe Hamlin, the father of the late Katie Hamlin, to name the bridge on Kemp Drive over Kellogg Creek to the Katie Hamlin Memorial Bridge.
Hamlin, who is suffering from colon cancer, wanted to see the bridge named in his daughter's honor before he passed away, according to the Cherokee Tribune.
Katie was 15 years old when her partially burned body was found by the bridge, located off Woodstock Road in the southwest sector of the county.
Hamlin's 17-year-old friend Jamerson Douglas Mangrum was arrested and convicted in December 2005 for the crime. Mangrum was found guilty on several charges, three counts of felony murder, two counts of aggravated child molestation and one count each of rape, concealing a death, tampering with evidence and abandoning a dead body.
He was sentenced to life plus 80 years in prison for the crime.
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