Richmond County authorities have released the woman named as a suspect in the stabbing death of a local man on Tybee Court.
Dora Wiggins was questioned in the Dec. 30 stabbing death of 24-year-old Dezmon Forester and “released without charges at this time,” sheriff’s Sgt. Caleb Lee said. An incident report calls the death a “voluntary manslaughter.”
At 9:35 a.m. Dec. 30, deputies responded to 138 Tybee Court in reference to a domestic incident, a press release said. Upon arrival, deputies observed Forester with a stab wound to his side, and he was pronounced deceased at the scene.
A sheriff’s report says the two used to live together, and it also says drug use by both of them was involved in the incident. No arrest was made because of “insufficient probable cause,” the report says.
Forester has been identified in an obituary as a resident of Allendale, S.C., but the incident report lists him as a North Augusta man. The suspect, Wiggins, is listed as a resident of Hillis Road on Augusta.
In Georgia, voluntary manslaughter is explained this way: “A person commits the offense of voluntary manslaughter when he causes the death of another human being under circumstances which would otherwise be murder and if he acts solely as the result of a sudden, violent, and irresistible passion resulting from serious provocation sufficient to excite such passion in a reasonable person.”
