AFTER DEMANDING A SPEEDY TRIAL, DEQUINDRE LANGSTON PLEADS GUILTY TO DECEMBER 2024 SHOOTING IN LAGRANGE AND IS SENTENCED TO SERVE 20 YEARS IN PRISON WITHOUT PAROLE
Immediately prior to commencing with a jury trial, on August 25, 2025, in the Superior Court of Troup County, Case Number 25-R-064, Dequindre Jerome Langston, a/k/a: “Double K,” 40 years of age, of LaGrange, pleaded guilty to one count of Aggravated Assault, one count of Possession of a Firearm during Commission of a Felony, and one count of Possession of Firearm by Convicted Felon. Langston also pleaded guilty to related Coweta County charges of Fleeing or Attempting to Elude a Police Officer and Cruelty to Children in the Second Degree. Coweta Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judge Jep Bendinger, in accordance with the State’s recommendation, sentenced Langston to serve 20 years in prison without parole, followed by 15 years on probation.
Chief Deputy Assistant District Attorney Lara Todd prosecuted the case. LaGrange Police Department (LPD) detectives, led by Detective Kindre Scott, investigated the shooting. The Coweta County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) arrested Langston, after CCSO Sgt. William Faulkner successfully performed a PIT maneuver on Langston’s vehicle.
The charges in this case resulted from a shooting on December 17, 2024, for which Langston was arrested on the same day in Coweta County following a high-speed chase wherein he endangered the life of his 5-year-old daughter, who was his passenger as he fled on the interstate at speeds reaching 100-miles-per-hour. Following his February 3, 2025, indictment in Troup County, Langston’s attorney filed a demand for a speedy trial on April 23, 2025, which required the case to be expedited for trial. In response to this demand for a speedy trial, the District Attorney’s Office asked the Court to schedule the trial for August 25, 2025, and filed a recidivist notice, based on Langston’s multiple prior felony convictions, which required by law that any sentence of prison time be without parole. Had Langston chosen to proceed with the expedited trial in Troup County that he demanded, the evidence would have shown the following:
At around 10:15 a.m. on December 17, 2024, LPD officers responded to a call about a shooting on Handley Street to find the victim suffering from a gunshot wound. Through witness statements and nearby surveillance video, LPD identified Langston as the shooter and identified his vehicle as a Chevrolet Suburban. Within an hour of LPD issuing a Be On the Lookout (BOLO) for this vehicle, CCSO deputies identified the vehicle near Interstate 85, apparently traveling in tandem with a Dodge Durango. When CCSO deputies went to stop both vehicles, only the Suburban pulled over, while the Durango fled from the deputies down the interstate at speeds over 100 mph in dangerous traffic conditions. The deputies stopped the Suburban and determined it was being driven by the mother of one of Langston’s children.
Langston was confirmed to be the driver of the fleeing Durango after CCSO deputies successfully executed a PIT maneuver which immobilized the vehicle. After Langston’s vehicle crashed, a five-year-old child, whom the deputies were not aware was in the vehicle, crawled from the wreckage. As deputies took the child to safety, the child cried while repeatedly stating, “daddy going too fast.” Miraculously, the child only suffered small cuts to her hand in addition to feeling pain in her head and stomach.
CCSO deputies took Langston into custody. In his vehicle, investigators found a handgun with an extended magazine that Georgia Bureau of Investigation experts subsequently concluded fired the spent cartridge cases recovered from the scene of the shooting on Handley Street in LaGrange. Langston had previously been convicted of at least five felonies, including cocaine possession in 2007, a shooting and firearm offense in 2009, cocaine and marijuana distribution in 2011, ecstasy distribution in 2015, and a felony Family-Violence Battery conviction in 2021. Langston has been sentenced to prison in his last four felony cases and was most recently released from prison in March of 2024, just nine months prior to this incident.
Dequindre Langston is a prime example of a repeat, violent offender who can only be stopped with incarceration. At 40 years of age, he has been arrested 36 times, convicted of multiple misdemeanor and felony offenses involving violence, had multiple violations of probation and parole, and has shown no desire to be a positive member of society. To escape responsibility for shooting a man in broad daylight, he was willing to endanger the life of his 5-year-old daughter and everyone else driving on the interstate. It is without question that our community will be safer with him in prison without the possibility of parole for the next twenty years.
JOHN HERBERT CRANFORD, JR.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
COWETA JUDICIAL CIRCUIT