Athens, GA – August 23, 2022 – In September of 2020, a pair of Georgia repossession agents tracked down a 2011 Honda using GPS. But no sooner than they approached it, than it sped off and the borrower turned and opened fire. That man, 28-year-old Cedrick Demon Mercery, has now plead a lesser guilty to the charge of federal gun charges.
On September 23, 2020, repossession agent Michael Wilson of Loganville and his partner initially located the Honda, which was equipped with a GPS, on Berlin Street off North Avenue, but Wilson said they decided not to do anything because of the number of people in the area.
Later, about 2:30 a.m., they tracked the car to Loblolly Lane in north Athens off Freeman Drive, according to police.
They waited about 40 minutes, and Wilson said that as they approached the car, he heard the motor start.
“I was going to inform him we had an order for repossession,” Wilson said. But the car “gassed off,” almost hitting Wilson’s co-worker and their van. The car drove to a nearby intersection and stopped.
“We heard three gunshots,” said Wilson, who sought safety in the nearby woods while his co-worker dropped to the ground.
When police arrived, an officer reported finding three 40 mm shell casings, where the victims said the car had stopped.
One of the repo men was able to give police a location of the car, but when officers in marked units made contact with the vehicle it fled on Dr. Martin Luther King Parkway and into the Bethel Homes apartment complex off College Avenue, where the driver abandoned it, according to the report, which noted that mail addressed to Mercery was located in the car, along with what appeared to be heroin and methamphetamine and drug-related objects.
Another car that had been parked at the Loblolly Drive residence was registered to a relative of Mercery, according to the report, and officers who chased the suspect and residents of Bethel Homes identified the suspect was Mercery when shown his photograph.
Ceddrick Demon Mercery aka Stunt, 30, of Athens, Georgia, pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon before U.S. District Judge C. Ashley Royal on Aug. 19. Mercery faces a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Sentencing has not been scheduled. There is no parole in the federal system.
Mercery, a career criminal, has also been charged with multiple counts of aggravated assault, false imprisonment, attempted aggravated sodomy, false imprisonment, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and battery, all stemming from a sexual assault two weeks later.
Source: Classic City News
GA repo shooter pleads guilty – DOJ – Repossession Violence
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