A state court judge in Southeast Georgia’s Effingham County has died by suicide inside the county courthouse.
The county sheriff’s office says Judge Steve Yekel was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted wound around 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 31. Investigators believe he died late Monday or early Tuesday.
Court business has been suspended and authorities are investigating his death. Yekel recently lost reelection and Tuesday would have been his last day on the bench.
This article comes to Now Habersham in partnership with GPB News
