The brutal killing of 45-year-old Tange Davis has reignited urgent questions about how Georgia’s criminal justice system handles repeat domestic violence offenders. Davis was murdered by her boyfriend, 56-year-old Cecil McCrary, while he was out on pretrial release for kidnapping and aggravated assault—charges stemming from prior domestic violence incidents against her.
For Davis’s family and advocates for domestic violence survivors, this tragedy was not just heartbreaking—it was preventable.
Cobb County Police launched their investigation on Saturday, Oct. 11, after Davis’s son reported her missing. He told dispatchers he had not heard from his mother in two days and tracked her car to a Lidl grocery store on Floyd Road using the vehicle’s OnStar system. When officers arrived, McCrary appeared on the scene, claiming Davis had last been at his home and showing them security footage of her leaving on Thursday night…