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Grant Spencer murder trial slated for Oct. 11
Accused of killing fellow GSU student Michael Gatto in 2014 at Rude Rudys
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Grant James Spencer
Grant James Spencer, who has been waiting two years in the Bulloch County Jail, is slated for a jury trial the week of Oct. 11 on charges of murder and aggravated battery in the death of Michael Joseph Gatto. Both Spencer and Gatto were Georgia Southern students when Gatto, 18 and a newly arrived freshman from Cumming, died after a confrontation at the Rude Rudy’s nightclub in the University Plaza shopping center the night of Aug. 27-28, 2014. Spencer, then 20, worked as a bouncer at Rude Rudy’s, but court documents say he was off-duty at the time.
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