January 8 – Three teenagers and an adult are injured in a drive-by shooting while playing basketball near Driskell Park.[1]
January 12 – A significant tornado outbreak impacted the Southeastern United States, with fourteen forming in Georgia alone.[2] Due to this outbreak, hundreds of trees were uprooted or snapped in the state.[3] As a result, the outbreak produced one fatality in Butts County, which occurred when a 5-year-old was crushed by an uprooted tree.[4]
August 14 – Former President of the United StatesDonald Trump is indicted by a grand jury in Atlanta for 13 criminal charges, which included violating the state's RICO act, soliciting a public officer to violate their oath, conspiring to impersonate a public officer, conspiring to commit forgery in the first degree, and conspiring to file false documents.[7]
August 31 – Hurricane Idalia enters Southeastern Georgia as a high-end tropical storm with sustained winds of 70 mph (115 km/h).[8] As a result, one fatality occurred in Valdosta when a man was killed by a fallen tree while helping two sheriff's deputies clear debris from a road.[9] Elsewhere, in Bulloch County, flooding caused by Idalia severely impacted four county roads, with damage estimated at $360,080.[10]
October 16 – Leonard Cure, a 53-year-old African-American man, is fatally shot during a physical struggle by a sherrif's deputy in Camden County, after being pulled over for speeding.[13]
