ONE MAN GUILTY OF UNION CITY HOME INVASION MURDER

Co-Defendant Awaiting Trial

One of two men who broke into a Union City home in September of 2005 and killed a young father as he defended his fiancée and one-year-old baby has been convicted. 22-year-old Charles Damion Baugh of College Park was found guilty in Fulton County Superior Court Friday of felony murder, two counts of aggravated assault, burglary, attempted armed robbery, possession of a firearm and cruelty to children in the death of 25-year-old Gary Stanton. Superior Court Judge Alford Dempsey sentenced Baugh to life in prison plus 25 years.

Baugh and a co-defendant, who is awaiting trial, broke into the duplex home on Cottage Court on the night of September 17, 2005. They began pistol-whipping and terrorizing Stanton’s fiancée as she talked to Stanton on the phone. When he heard his family in distress, he raced home—entered carrying a gun he kept in the car and was shot by Baugh. Stanton collapsed at a neighbor’s home and died. Baugh and his companion jumped from a second story window empty-handed. The co-defendant was arrested the next day; Baugh’s parents turned him into police three days later on September 20, 2005.

Judge Dempsey severed the cases, ordering the two defendants be tried separately. No trial date has been set in the co-defendant’s case. Baugh’s case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys Eric Dunaway and Shondeana Crews. They were assisted in the investigation and prosecution of the case by Fulton DA Investigators Steve Barresi and Fred Hall, Union City Police Department Lieutenants Mike Jones and Lee Brown and Fulton DA Victim- Witness Advocate Scott Long.

Contact: Lyn Vaughn, 404.730.6860 (office); 770.597.6963 (cell); lyn.vaughn@co.fulton.ga.us