A Georgia judge has sentenced a man to 25 years in prison and five years probation for shooting his girlfriend in the head and hiding her for a month.
A jury convicted Jerrontae Cain, 39, of shooting Nicole Gordon, 42, in 2017 and keeping her at his mother’s house for a month, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Gordon did not realize she had been shot until a friend took her to Atlanta Medical Center on June 25, 2017.
Gordon suffered memory loss and severe headaches after being involved in what she believed was a car accident. Gordon, with a spotty memory, told investigators that she remembered arguing with Cain during a car ride when the driver’s side window broke and showered her with glass. She lost consciousness afterward.
Unknown to Gordon, Cain had shot her in the back of the head. Doctors found the bullet still lodged in Gordon’s skull a month after the incident.
“At no point during the month between the fight with Cain and her eventual visit to Atlanta Medical Center did Gordon receive any professional care,” said Paul Howard, district attorney for Fulton County.
Cain had blamed Gordon’s injury on the car hitting a tree, but investigators found Cain’s story to be “inconsistent” with the facts of the case.
