Dive Team comes up empty handed
Investigation still underway

By Allie Jackson
ajackson@barrowcountynews.com

After almost six hours of searching, the Hall County Sheriff's Office Dive Team brought their exploration of a pond located behind Parks Mills Apartments to a close.  

"Unfortunately they did not recover a weapon," said Cpl. Johnson, with the Auburn Police Department, in a brief phone interview Tuesday night. 

The Dive Team arrived on site at the pond at 9 a.m. Tuesday morning to search for the .25 Caliber Pistol that was used in the shooting of Kathy Lynn McCallister,35, and Michael John Borg, 54.

The couple was shot while asleep in their bed. McCallister was hit seven times in the legs and torso according to police and Borg was hit once in the abdomen.

Casings from the pistol were discovered in back of the residence below the air conditioning unit. There were also a number of holes found where the bullets had entered the home.

The shootings occurred around 3:50 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 15 and the case is still under investigation.

No one has been charged in the shootings, but potential evidence led divers from the Hall County Sheriff’s Office to search the waters of the pond located behind Parks Mill Apartments on Tuesday, according to Auburn Police Chief Fred Brown.

Following surgery, police say Borg was released from the hospital while McCallister's condition remains undisclosed.   

A team of more than eight divers searched the murky waters unsuccessfully.

"They exhausted the search," Johnson said. "There were poor conditions as far as the water goes, it's a basically a mud hole, visibility is none," she said.

The shooting is still under investigation and according to police the couple has moved out of the apartments.

"We are still looking into every avenue," Johnson said. "It is still an open investigation and we are giving time to everything that comes our way, unfortunately, that hasn't been a lot."

Police are asking that if anyone has any information pertaining to this case or saw anything out of the ordinary on the night of Nov. 15, to call the Police Department at (770) 963-4002.

  




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