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Douglas County, GA: Fourth Arrest in the Dog River Reservoir Death of Jamal Parker, 37, of Atlanta

Workers on a reservoir project found a body in the water on May 15. It took a month and a DNA test to give it a name. Three people were charged with murder, a fourth was charged this week, and four newsrooms do not agree on the day it happened. This page shows you every seam.

What happened: a fourth person charged

A fourth person has been charged in connection with the death of Jamal Parker, 37, of Atlanta, whose body was recovered from the Dog River Reservoir along Highway 166 in Douglas County, Georgia, on May 15, 2026. The Douglas County Sheriff's Office is investigating. Three people were already charged with murder before this arrest.

The person charged this week is David Davonte Barber. The charges against him, as carried across four to five of the newsrooms in the record compiled for this page, are felony murder, malice murder, felony battery and aggravated assault. That is a heavier charging sheet than the one attached to the first three names, and it is worth reading the difference rather than flattening it, which is what the charges section below does.

The three people charged before him are Mario Andre Barber, 46; Brittany Amber Baker, 42; and Ambria Sadia Symone Boyd, 35. Five of the newsrooms in this record carry all three as charged with murder. The ages of Mario Barber and Brittany Baker come from the Douglas County Sentinel; Boyd's age of 35 appears in two outlets. No age for David Davonte Barber appears anywhere in the record compiled for this page, and this page therefore does not give him one.

That is the whole of the new development, and it is a smaller thing than a headline makes it sound. A charge is an accusation. It is filed by the state, it has not been tested, and it does not become a finding until a jury says so. Everything below is written on that footing.

Who was killed: Jamal Parker, 37, of Atlanta

Jamal Parker was 37 years old and from Atlanta. That much is carried by six newsrooms in the record compiled for this page, which is as solid as a fact gets on a site that counts.

CBS News Atlanta describes him as an Atlanta bartender and artist. That, too, comes from a single outlet, and it is the only description of his life in the record compiled for this page.

It is a thin biography for a man who had 37 years of one. A bartender knows a few hundred people by their drink order. An artist leaves things behind. Neither of those facts is in a police file, and neither is going to be, which is part of why the paragraph from his father further down this page matters more than the charging documents do.

Exactly where: the Dog River Reservoir on Highway 166

The Dog River Reservoir, along Highway 166, in Douglas County, Georgia. Six newsrooms place the recovery there. The reservoir is a water body, not a street address, and this page treats it that way.

The Douglas County Sentinel reports that the body was found by workers assisting with an expansion of the reservoir. FOX 5 Atlanta says only that construction workers found it. That detail explains the discovery: this was not a search, and it was not a tip. People were working on the water and found something.

There are no coordinates on this page and there is no map. A reservoir spans a great deal of ground, the record compiled for this page contains no pinpoint, and dropping a marker on a lake to look authoritative would invent precision the reporting does not contain. The Local Alert does not publish coordinates it has not verified.

This page also describes the recovery and stops. The body was recovered from the reservoir. There is no reason for a reader to be handed anything past that sentence, and there is a family that will read this page.

A tattoo, then a DNA test: how he was identified

A month passed between the recovery and the name. That gap is the part of this case most worth understanding, because it explains why the earliest coverage had no victim in it at all.

FOX 5 Atlanta reports that deputies released photographs of a distinctive tattoo in an effort to get the man identified. That is a specific investigative move and a fairly public one: when a body cannot be identified by documents, face or fingerprints, an agency will sometimes publish an image of a tattoo and ask the public to recognise it.

FOX 5 Atlanta reports that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation identified him on June 15. The Douglas County Sentinel and CBS News Atlanta report that the identification was made through DNA. No outlet in this record states a date on which the identification was announced, so this page gives none.

DNA identification is slower than television suggests. A profile has to be developed from the remains, then compared against something — a database record, or a reference sample from a relative. A month between recovery and name is not unusual, and it is not a sign that anything went wrong.

The fourth arrest: David Davonte Barber

David Davonte Barber has been charged with felony murder, malice murder, felony battery and aggravated assault. Four of the newsrooms in the record compiled for this page carry that charging list.

Two things about him are not in this record, and this page says so rather than filling them in. His age does not appear anywhere in the record compiled for this page. FOX 5 Atlanta reports that investigators confirmed he and Mario Barber are brothers, and that is the only relationship any outlet in this record states.

The day of his arrest is genuinely disputed among the newsrooms, which is why this page says earlier this week and gives the disagreement its own section and a row in the comparison table.

He is charged. He has not been convicted. Nothing in the record compiled for this page reports a plea, a bond decision or a trial date for him.

The three charged before him

Five newsrooms in this record carry the same three names, all charged with murder:

• Mario Andre Barber, 46. The age comes from the Douglas County Sentinel.
• Brittany Amber Baker, 42. The age comes from the Douglas County Sentinel.
• Ambria Sadia Symone Boyd, 35. The age appears in two outlets in this record.

Attention: the surname is Barber. Every story in this record spells it Barber — including the Sentinel’s own July story — except the Douglas County Sentinel’s June story, which spells it Barker. This page uses Barber and tells you plainly that a variant exists, because a person searching court records for the wrong spelling finds nothing and concludes, wrongly, that nothing is there.

FOX 5 Atlanta reports that investigators confirmed Mario Barber and David Barber are brothers. That is the only stated relationship among the four people charged in this record, and it comes from one outlet.

Ambria Boyd, and what her attorney says

WSB-TV and FOX 5 Atlanta report that Ambria Sadia Symone Boyd was the victim's girlfriend. Beyond the murder charge, the Douglas County Sentinel reports that she is also charged with obstruction and making a false statement, that she is being held without bond, and that she is of Stone Mountain. CBS News Atlanta, citing jail records, puts her arrest on July 7.

And here is the part that a page like this one has an obligation to carry with the same weight as the charges: WSB-TV reports that Boyd's attorney says she is innocent, and that she is fundraising for her defence.

That is not a footnote and it is not a formality. An accused person's denial is a fact about the case, reported by a named newsroom, and it belongs in the same paragraph territory as the accusation. A page that prints four sets of charges in bold and buries the one recorded denial in a closing line has quietly decided the case for the reader. This one does not.

What the record compiled for this page does not contain is any statement from an attorney for David Davonte Barber, Mario Andre Barber or Brittany Amber Baker. Their silence in this record is not a position; it is an absence of reporting, and this page does not read anything into it.

The charges, and what each one means in Georgia

Four names, two different charging sheets, and a set of words that people use interchangeably and Georgia law does not. This section is general law, not anything reported about these defendants.

Two of those rows deserve a caution. Charging a person with both malice murder and felony murder is ordinary practice, not double-counting — they are alternative theories of the same death, and a defendant does not serve two sentences for one killing. And the fact that the first three are described with the general word murder does not mean their charges are lesser or greater than the fourth's; it means the reporting in this record used a general word, and this page is not going to guess at a specific one.

Charged is not convicted, and this page never blurs the two

All four people named on this page are charged. Not one of them has been convicted of anything reported in the record compiled for this page.

That sentence is not a disclaimer bolted on at the end. It is the operating rule of the whole page, and it changes what the words are allowed to do:

• A warrant is an allegation. Warrants set out what the state says happened. They are written by the accusing side, before any defence has been heard, and they are not evidence of anything.
• An arrest is not a finding. It requires probable cause, which is a far lower bar than the proof beyond a reasonable doubt a conviction takes.
• An indictment is not a verdict. A grand jury hears the state's case and decides whether a charge proceeds. It does not decide guilt.
• One recorded denial is on this page. WSB-TV reports Ambria Boyd's attorney says she is innocent. That statement stands beside the charges, not behind them.

Charges can be reduced, dismissed or dropped entirely, and people who were arrested and named in headlines are sometimes never tried at all. The Local Alert publishes a corrections and removals page for exactly that reason, and it is linked at the bottom of every article on this site.

The sequence, from May 15 to this week

Laid end to end, the record compiled for this page runs like this.

Schematic sequence, not to scale. Steps are ordered by the sequence the reporting describes. Step six carries no agreed date, and step four carries no agreed street name, which is why both appear in the comparison table below rather than being silently resolved.

One line in that sequence needs unpacking. The record compiled for this page describes a home in Douglas County searched over four days after the body was found. Four days is a long search. It is also, in this record, the only investigative activity described between the recovery and the first charges, and the street it happened on is one of the four things the newsrooms disagree about.

Where our sources differ

This is the centre of the page. Seven newsrooms have filed on this case, and on four separate points they contradict each other outright. On several more, a single outlet carries a fact the others do not. Nothing below is resolved, merged or averaged. Read the right-hand column and you will know exactly whose reporting you are relying on.

Read down that column and a pattern shows itself. The spine of this case is solid — a man, a reservoir, a date, four charged people, one sheriff's office. The edges are not, and the edges are exactly where a hurried page invents things.

Why this page says the arrest happened “earlier this week”

Four newsrooms filed on the fourth arrest and they do not agree on the day. WSB-TV says Monday. FOX 5 Atlanta, Atlanta News First and Patch say Tuesday. WSB Radio says only “this week.”

The tempting move is to count heads: three say Tuesday, one says Monday, print Tuesday. This page does not do that, and the reason is worth stating. A majority is not a verification. Newsrooms routinely work from the same agency release, and three outlets can carry the same day because they all read the same sentence rather than because three reporters independently confirmed it. Counting them as three confirmations is how a single error becomes a consensus.

There is a second reason a date can split honestly. An arrest, a booking and a first court appearance are three separate events that can fall on different days, and a story about “the arrest” might be dated to any of them. Nothing in the record compiled for this page tells us which event each outlet keyed its day to.

So this page prints the phrase that is true under every version in the record: earlier this week. If you need the exact calendar day, the Douglas County court and jail records are where a date is authoritative, and a newsroom's phrasing is not.

The street name this page will not print

The record compiled for this page describes a home in Douglas County searched over four days after the body was found. It does not agree on where that home is.

FOX 5 Atlanta puts it in a “Windcrest Drive subdivision.” WSB-TV and the Douglas County Sentinel, in June, call it “Langdale Chase.” The Sentinel, in July, calls it “Langdon Chase.” That is three versions, and one of them is an outlet disagreeing with itself a month apart.

This page names no street. That is not fastidiousness, it is harm avoidance. Publishing a street name in connection with a murder investigation puts every household on that street into a story they are not in. Get it wrong — and on this record, two of the three versions must be wrong — and you have attached a homicide to the wrong block, permanently, in a search result that outlives the case.

So the sentence this page uses is “a home in Douglas County,” and it will stay that way. The four-day duration of the search is in this record and is printed above; the address is not something this page is willing to guess at.

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Cause of death: one account, and two that say nothing has been released

This is the most delicate disagreement in the record, and it is not a disagreement about a fact so much as about two different kinds of statement.

FOX 5 Atlanta reports that warrants read in court allege that David Davonte Barber shot Jamal Parker twice and stabbed him five times. That is an allegation contained in a charging document. It is what the state says it will try to prove.

Patch and the Douglas County Sentinel report that a cause of death has not been released. That refers to an official determination by the office responsible for certifying how a person died.

Both of those can be true simultaneously, and this page prints them side by side rather than choosing. A warrant describing alleged injuries is not a medical finding. A medical examiner's certified cause of death is a separate document, produced by a separate office, on a separate timetable, and it is the one that carries official weight. Treating a warrant allegation as an established cause of death is precisely the mistake this page is built to avoid.

So this page states no cause of death. The fact card says the record is disputed and sends readers here. What is settled in this record is narrower and it is enough: a body was recovered from the Dog River Reservoir on May 15, and it was identified as Jamal Parker. This page publishes no further description of the condition of the body, and it never will. A family is going to read this, and nothing is gained by writing sentences that only hurt them.

Who is investigating, and what the GBI actually did

The Douglas County Sheriff's Office is investigating. Six newsrooms in this record name it. It is the agency that searched the home, the agency that released the tattoo photographs, and the agency whose investigator is the published contact for tips.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation's role in this record is the DNA identification, and only that. This is the single most commonly garbled thing in Georgia crime reporting, so it is worth being blunt: the GBI is not running this case in the record compiled for this page. The GBI's crime lab performs forensic work for agencies across the state, including DNA identification of unidentified remains, without the bureau taking over the underlying investigation. Naming the GBI as the investigating agency here would be wrong.

Nothing in the record compiled for this page places the Douglasville Police Department in this case, and no city police department is named anywhere in it. Douglasville is a city with its own police force; Douglas County has a sheriff's office. They are different agencies with different jurisdictions, different leadership and different records counters, and a reader sent to the wrong one loses a day.

One more distinction, since it comes up in the next section: prosecutors are not investigators. The record compiled for this page reports a plan attributed to prosecutors, but it names no prosecutor and no district attorney's office, so this page names none either.

A separate fraud case, and the connection nobody has stated

There is a second case in this record, and it needs handling carefully because it is easy to imply something nobody has reported.

The Douglas County Sentinel itemises fraud and false-identification counts against Brittany Amber Baker and Mario Andre Barber. FOX 5 Atlanta confirms that such a case exists and reports that authorities have not clarified any connection to the death.

Say that plainly: no outlet in the record compiled for this page connects the fraud case to the death of Jamal Parker. Not one. The two cases involve two of the same names, and that is the entire extent of the documented overlap.

Placing two unconnected cases in the same article creates a suggestion the reporting does not support — the reader's mind does the joining that the newsroom carefully avoided. It appears here because it is in the record and omitting it would leave a hole for someone else to fill badly. It appears with that caution attached because the alternative is a page that implies a motive nobody has alleged.

What going straight to a grand jury skips

FOX 5 Atlanta reports that prosecutors plan to take all four cases directly to a Douglas County grand jury, bypassing a preliminary hearing. That comes from one outlet in this record and is attributed to prosecutors generally; no prosecutor is named. Everything else in this section is general Georgia procedure, not reporting about these defendants.

A preliminary hearing — also called a commitment hearing — is an early proceeding in front of a magistrate at which the state has to show probable cause to keep a case going. It is usually short. Its real significance to a defendant is that it is often the first and only early moment when defence counsel gets to hear a state witness testify and cross-examine them before an indictment.

A grand jury is a panel of citizens that hears the state's presentation and decides whether to return an indictment. It is not a trial. There is no defence case, no cross-examination and no judge weighing both sides. It answers one question: does this charge proceed?

So the practical effect of going straight to a grand jury is this: the case moves forward without the early adversarial hearing. It is a lawful and routine choice in Georgia felony practice, it is not a sign of anything unusual about a case, and it is not a finding about anybody. What it does mean is that the next public milestone in this case is likely to be an indictment decision rather than a hearing.

What we don't know yet

None of the above is filled in by inference. This page does not update itself and there is no second version coming. It is a record of what seven named newsrooms had established as of the timestamp at the foot of this page.

Jamal Parker's father, and a funeral on Aug. 15

One newsroom in this record went and found the family. WSB-TV reporter Tom Jones spoke with the victim's father, Charles Parker. The quotes below are from that WSB-TV report and from nowhere else on this page.

On what he cannot stop thinking about: “And I just pray to God that he didn’t suffer.”

And on his son: “I can hear him calling me. I can hear him calling his mom.”

WSB-TV reports that a funeral is set for Aug. 15 at F.L. Sims Funeral Home in Mableton.

Three months separate a body in a reservoir from a funeral date, and most of what filled those months was procedure: a tattoo photograph, a DNA profile, a four-day search, four sets of charges. The father's three sentences are the only part of this record that describes what any of it cost.

If you know something: the tip line

Four newsrooms in this record carry the same contact for the Douglas County Sheriff's Office:

• Investigator Natalie Poulk, Douglas County Sheriff's Office
• (770) 876-4116
• [email protected]

The Local Alert does not print contact details it cannot stand behind, and this one is carried consistently by four separate newsrooms in this record, which is why it appears here. Call the agency, not this page. The Local Alert is not a law enforcement agency, cannot take a tip, and cannot pass one along.

If you knew Jamal Parker, or saw something near the Dog River Reservoir along Highway 166 in the days before May 15, that is the number the sheriff's office published for exactly that call. Small things count: a vehicle, a time, a person out of place. Investigators would rather hear something that turns out to be nothing than never hear it.

How to get the report, and what an open case does to it

After a killing, the most common practical question is not about a suspect. It is: how do I get the paperwork?

The document most people want is the incident report, held by the agency that took the call — here, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. The law governing your request is Georgia's Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 and following. In general terms, as the statute is written:

• Anyone can ask. You need not be a relative, and you need not say why you want it.
• The agency generally has three business days to produce the records or respond in writing describing what exists and when it will be available.
• Fees are allowed for copies and for search and retrieval time beyond a short free increment.
• Records tied to a pending investigation are broadly exempt under O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72, with a carve-out that generally keeps the initial incident report and initial arrest report available even while a case is open.

That last bullet decides most of what you will actually receive here. This case is open and heading to a grand jury, so expect the initial report and expect a denial on the investigative file. That is standard posture in an active homicide case, not a judgment about the person asking.

Two other documents live elsewhere. Charging documents and warrants are court records, held by the clerk of the court, not by the sheriff's office. A death certificate is not a police record at all and comes through the death-investigation track rather than the criminal one. Ask the right counter and you save a week.

The Local Alert does not publish a records phone number, email address, office address or fee schedule that we have not verified ourselves. The tip line above is published because four newsrooms carry it. A records line is not in that category, so use the agency's own official website for the current process.

Help for Georgia victims and their families

These are the general channels in Georgia for families after a violent death. None of it is reported about this case, and none of it is legal advice.

Crime victims compensation. Georgia runs a crime victims compensation program administered by the state Criminal Justice Coordinating Council. For a homicide, it can help surviving family members with costs such as funeral and burial expenses, counseling and certain economic losses. Eligibility rules, filing deadlines and award caps apply, and they matter. We do not print a dollar figure or a deadline we have not verified, so confirm both with the program itself. Applications are commonly filed with help from a victim advocate rather than alone.

Victim advocates. Georgia district attorney offices and many law enforcement agencies have victim-witness advocates whose job is exactly this: explaining where a case stands, helping with compensation paperwork, and giving notice of court dates. Their help does not depend on a conviction, and it does not cost anything.

Your rights in a criminal case. Georgia's Crime Victims Bill of Rights, at O.C.G.A. § 17-17-1 and following, gives victims and certain family members rights including notice of proceedings and the ability to be heard at specified stages. Those rights generally have to be requested and registered rather than arriving automatically, which is a detail families learn far too late.

Attention: the phone starts ringing after a homicide, and not everyone calling is calling for you. The Local Alert is not a law enforcement agency and is not a law firm. We cannot tell you what to sign. What we will say is that nothing has to be signed today, and any offer that cannot survive a night's sleep was never much of an offer.

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Frequently asked questions

What happened at the Dog River Reservoir in Douglas County, Georgia?
A body was recovered from the Dog River Reservoir along Highway 166 in Douglas County on May 15, 2026. The Douglas County Sentinel reports that it was found by workers assisting with an expansion of the reservoir; FOX 5 Atlanta says only that construction workers found it. FOX 5 Atlanta reports that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation identified the man on June 15, and the Douglas County Sentinel and CBS News Atlanta report the identification was made through DNA. He was Jamal Parker, 37, of Atlanta. Four people have since been charged, and the Douglas County Sheriff's Office is investigating.

Who was Jamal Parker?
Jamal Parker was 37 years old and from Atlanta. Six newsrooms in the record compiled for this page carry his name and age; FOX 5 Atlanta carries the name without an age. CBS News Atlanta describes him as an Atlanta bartender and artist, which is the only description of his life in the record compiled for this page.

Who has been charged in the Jamal Parker case?
Four people. David Davonte Barber was charged earlier this week with felony murder, malice murder, felony battery and aggravated assault. Mario Andre Barber, 46, Brittany Amber Baker, 42, and Ambria Sadia Symone Boyd, 35, were each charged with murder before him. The ages of Mario Barber and Brittany Baker come from the Douglas County Sentinel. All four are charged and none has been convicted.

How old is David Davonte Barber?
No age for him appears in the record compiled for this page, from any of the seven newsrooms. This page does not supply an age it cannot attribute. Ages are published for the other three people charged.

When was the fourth arrest made?
Earlier this week, and the newsrooms do not agree on the day. WSB-TV says Monday. FOX 5 Atlanta, Atlanta News First and Patch say Tuesday. WSB Radio says only that it happened this week. This page prints the phrase that is true under every version rather than counting outlets and picking the most popular day. An arrest, a booking and a first court appearance can also fall on different days, and the record compiled for this page does not say which event each outlet dated.

Why does this page not name the street where the home was searched?
Because the record contains three different names for it. FOX 5 Atlanta describes a Windcrest Drive subdivision. WSB-TV and the Douglas County Sentinel, in June, call it Langdale Chase. The Sentinel, in July, calls it Langdon Chase. At least two of those must be wrong. Publishing a street name in a homicide story attaches the case to every household on that block, permanently and in search results, so this page says only that a home in Douglas County was searched over four days.

How was Jamal Parker identified?
By DNA. FOX 5 Atlanta reports that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation identified him on June 15. The Douglas County Sentinel and CBS News Atlanta report that the identification was made through DNA. FOX 5 Atlanta reports that deputies had released photographs of a distinctive tattoo in an effort to get him identified. A month passed between the recovery of the body and the release of his name.

Has a cause of death been released?
Patch and the Douglas County Sentinel report that a cause of death has not been released. Separately, FOX 5 Atlanta reports that warrants read in court allege that David Davonte Barber shot Jamal Parker twice and stabbed him five times. Those are two different kinds of statement: an allegation in a charging document is not a medical finding by the office that certifies how a person died. This page states no cause of death.

Which agency is investigating, and what did the GBI do?
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office is investigating, and six newsrooms in this record name it. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation's role in the record compiled for this page is the DNA identification of the victim and nothing more. The GBI crime lab performs forensic work for agencies across Georgia without taking over the underlying investigation. Nothing in the record compiled for this page places the Douglasville Police Department in this case.

Is Ambria Boyd the victim's girlfriend, and what does she say?
WSB-TV and FOX 5 Atlanta report that Ambria Sadia Symone Boyd was the victim's girlfriend. The Douglas County Sentinel reports that she is charged with obstruction and making a false statement in addition to murder, that she is being held without bond, and that she is of Stone Mountain. CBS News Atlanta, citing jail records, puts her arrest on July 7. WSB-TV reports that her attorney says she is innocent and that she is fundraising for her defence.

Have the four people charged been found guilty?
No. All four have been charged and none has been convicted of anything reported in the record compiled for this page. A charge is an accusation filed by the state. A warrant sets out what the state says happened and is not evidence. An arrest requires probable cause, which is a much lower standard than the proof beyond a reasonable doubt a conviction requires. Charges are sometimes reduced, dismissed or dropped entirely.

What does taking the case straight to a grand jury mean?
FOX 5 Atlanta reports that prosecutors plan to take all four cases directly to a Douglas County grand jury, bypassing a preliminary hearing. No prosecutor is named in the record compiled for this page. A preliminary hearing is an early proceeding at which a magistrate decides whether there is probable cause to continue, and it is often the first chance for defence counsel to cross-examine a state witness. A grand jury is a panel of citizens that decides whether an indictment is returned. It is not a trial, there is no defence case, and an indictment is not a conviction.

Is the separate fraud case connected to Jamal Parker's death?
No source in the record compiled for this page connects them. The Douglas County Sentinel itemises fraud and false-identification counts against Brittany Amber Baker and Mario Andre Barber. FOX 5 Atlanta confirms that such a case exists and reports that authorities have not clarified any connection to the death. Two of the same names appear in both matters, and that is the entire documented overlap.

Why do some reports spell the surname Barker instead of Barber?
Six of the newsrooms in the record compiled for this page spell it Barber. The Douglas County Sentinel's June story spells it Barker. This page uses Barber and flags the variant so that anyone searching court or jail records knows to try both spellings, because a search on the wrong spelling returns nothing and looks like proof that nothing is there.

How do I give investigators information about this case?
Four newsrooms in the record compiled for this page carry the same contact for the Douglas County Sheriff's Office: Investigator Natalie Poulk, (770) 876-4116, [email protected]. Contact the agency directly. The Local Alert is not a law enforcement agency, cannot take a tip and cannot pass one along.

What help exists for the family of a Georgia homicide victim?
Georgia runs a crime victims compensation program administered by the state Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, which can help surviving family members with costs such as funeral and burial expenses and counseling. Deadlines, caps and eligibility rules apply, and this page does not print a dollar figure or a filing deadline we have not verified. Georgia's Crime Victims Bill of Rights, O.C.G.A. 17-17-1 and following, gives victims and certain family members rights including notice of court proceedings, and those rights generally have to be requested and registered rather than arriving automatically.