This one specifically, though, of course, hits a little closer to home because, you know, the guys that work here at the sheriff's office on the night shift spent some time with Elijah in the racetrack there and got to know him over the years.

Yeah. Hello and welcome, welcome back to this classic city crime special report. I'm Cameron J. Now as we prepare to enter into our new miniseries on the 1987 murders for which Clinton Bankston was held responsible,

we must turn our attention to a case that is on the minds of local residents, a local family, and local

law enforcement officials.

23-year-old Elijah James Wood was shot and killed on March 19, 2021 at the racetrack located

on Highway 441 in Watkinsville, Georgia, as he worked a shift that he was not even initially

set to take, per his family. Law enforcement officials have

yet to arrest the person or persons responsible for the cold-blooded murder of this young man.

A perpetrator who was, by the way, caught on video surveillance covered nearly from head to toe

carrying a pistol. To view this video, please visit the Oconi County Sheriff's Office Facebook page.

Now this morning, Classic City Crime Podcasts spoke exclusively by phone with Oconi County Sheriff James Hale for an update on the case,

and he has some new information to share with each of you.

But before we go there, I wanted to do

something which is very important to me and the work that we do here. Remembering the life of

Elijah Wood. According to his obituary posted by Lorden Stevens Funeral Homes, Elijah James Wood.

23 years old of Watkinsville passed away on March 19 19, 2021. He was preceded in death by his mother, Mary Kay Wood, and survivors include his father, Todd Wood, sister, Mary Wood, and brother-in-law James Tripp Lemmonds, brothers, Stephen and David Wood, and nephew Carson Lemons. We got to speak with his brother-in-law

Tripp, who has been working very hard online to disseminate information and to ask people

that might be you to come forward with information that could help. I wanted Tripp to help us

better understand who was Elijah. So often in these cases we get caught up on searching for the

truth and trying to find our own facts that we really forget who it is that justice is due for

in the first place. In this case, for Elijah. I'm going to play my conversation with Tripp for all

of you to hear as we remember and memorialize the life of Elijah James Wood.

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