Outlet Mall Burglary Suspect Charged With Vehicular Homicide

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A burglary suspect who allegedly caused a fatal crash during a high speed chase with police last month has been arrested.

Tora Glennis Gordon, 23, is charged with vehicular homicide in the first degree, commercial burglary, theft by receiving stolen property, attempting to elude police, reckless driving, driving too fast for conditions, driving without a license, weaving over the roadway and plate used to conceal vehicle.

Gordon was booked into the Cherokee County Adult Detention Center May 1 and remains there with a $50,075 bond.

Another suspect, 17-year-old Christopher Thomas of Atlanta, was arrested by Atlanta police on unrelated charges, and investigators have taken out arrest warrants for the teen, Woodstock police spokesperson Brittany Duncan said.

Gordon was allegedly the driver of a vehicle that reportedly matched the description of a car spotted during a burglary on Monday, April 20 at True Religion Brand Jeans, which is located in the Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta on Ridgewalk Parkway.

Duncan said officers were dispatched to the store, located on Ridgewalk Parkway around 4:43 a.m. April 20. The suspects involved allegedly “fled from the scene after security approached them,” she said.

A description of three vehicles involved was given to patrol units. Duncan stated one of the vehicle was “spotted driving erratically,” almost striking two other vehicles, before exiting Interstate 575 at Highway 92.

Gordon and his passenger, 16-year-old Ladarrius McSwain of Atlanta, were traveling in an Acrua heading westbound on Highway 92 west of Wade Green Road at “high rate of speed when the driver lost control of the car in a curve, traveled across the eastbound lanes, hit a curb, overturned and hit a retaining wall,” the Georgia State Patrol previously told Patch.

McSwain was killed in the wreck while Gordon was transported to WellStar Kennestone Hospital where he was treated.

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Photo: Tora Glennis Gordon, 23. Credit: Cherokee Sheriff’s Office