BALL GROUND, Ga. — A Cherokee County man has pleaded guilty to trying to kill his estranged wife after breaking into her house in 2018.
The Cherokee County District Attorney’s Office say Ronald Richard Goss, 57, showed up to his wife’s house in February 2018 to see if their marriage could be saved. His wife, Tina Davis, told him that she wanted to continue with the divorce.
Goss returned to her house at 4 a.m. the next morning and waited outside for her to wake up at 5 a.m.
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Once she did, prosecutors say Goss cut off the power to the house, entered the garage and shot the door to get into the house.
Prosecutors say Davis was in the bathroom when Goss broke in and could hear him shouting that if he couldn’t have her, no one could.
They say Goss then shot her seven times in the chest, head, left forearm, left thumb, left shoulder and right hip. She suffered several internal injuries, including a spinal injury that left her without feeling from the waist down.
At some point during his shooting spree, a bullet ricocheted and hit Goss in the face.
According to prosecutors, Goss then took cell phone photos of Davis and himself before calling 911.
Police found that Goss had also poured gas on Davis’ car with the intentions of committing arson.
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Over the last three years, Davis has undergone 15 surgeries, six weeks of inpatient rehabilitation, four weeks of outpatient rehabilitation and 459 hours of physical and occupational therapy.
She is now able to walk on her own without crutches.
“But what hurts most are the things he took from my future. I would have been a go-to babysitter for my grandkids. I would have been the fun Nana. These should be the best years of my life. I should be checking off my bucket list. But thanks to him, I spend my days in therapy just to regain a portion of what he took. I may not have died that day, but he took my life just as if I had. A weaker person physically, mentally, spiritually would not have survived,” said Davis at Goss’ sentencing hearing. “There will be no parole for me. Please make him live with the consequences of his decisions for the rest of his life.”
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Goss was sentenced to 65 years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted murder, home invasion, attempted arson, nine counts of family violence aggravated battery and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
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