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Shaddi Abusaid

Man who killed 2 Georgia deputies pleads guilty, gets life in prison

ATLANTA — The man who shot two Cobb County sheriff’s deputies pleaded guilty to murder and other charges Thursday morning, exactly three months after killing the law enforcement officers.

Christopher Patrick Golden, 30, entered a negotiated guilty plea to the murders of deputies Jonathan Randall Koleski and Marshall Samual Ervin Jr., who were trying to serve an arrest warrant in a west Cobb neighborhood Sept. 8.

The hearing was initially set to be an arraignment, but Golden agreed to a plea deal, Cobb Superior Court Judge Julie Adams Jacobs told a courtroom full of deputies and grieving relatives of the slain lawmen.

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