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One dead, two critical in Swainsboro incident
Taco Bell crash was intentional, police said
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A Statesboro man is charged with felony murder after plowing his car into a Swainsboro Taco Bell Thursday afternoon in what police say appears to be an intentional act. One woman is dead and four victims, including two children, are hospitalized, said Swainsboro Police Chief Randy Ellison. Just before 4 p.m. Thursday, Ellison said 18-year-old Oliver Baylen Cope of Old River Road North in Bulloch County, drove a Dodge Charger across five lanes of traffic at a high rate of speed, crashing into the restaurant, killing Macy Lynn Purvis, 23, of Adrian.
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