{"id":95557,"date":"2018-08-13T14:50:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T18:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=95557"},"modified":"2018-08-13T14:50:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T16:14:00","slug":"she-ran-for-congress-on-gun-control-now-shes-charged-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/she-ran-for-congress-on-gun-control-now-shes-charged-with-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"She Ran for Congress on Gun Control, Now She\u2019s Charged with Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_95558\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Collins.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"she-ran-for-congress-on-gun-control-now-shes-charged-with-murder\" title=\"She Ran for Congress on Gun Control, Now She\u2019s Charged with Murder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95558\" title=\"She Ran for Congress on Gun Control, Now She\u2019s Charged with Murder\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-95558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Collins-400x267.png\" alt=\"She Ran for Congress on Gun Control, Now She\u2019s Charged with Murder\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Collins-400x267.png 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Collins-150x100.png 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Collins-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Collins-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Collins.png 1058w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-95558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kellie Collins is being charged with murder and grand larceny. (<em>Photo: WSB-TV)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>A former Georgia Congressional candidate who supported \u201cresponsible\u201d gun control is now being charged with murder, local news affiliate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/former-congressional-candidate-accused-of-killing-campaign-treasurer\/811132728\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"she-ran-for-congress-on-gun-control-now-shes-charged-with-murder\" title=\"She Ran for Congress on Gun Control, Now She\u2019s Charged with Murder\">WSB-TV reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kellie Collins, who ran as a Democrat in 2017 to represent Georgia\u2019s 10th District, is accused of fatally shooting her former campaign treasurer Curtis Cain.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities at the McDuffie County Sheriff\u2019s Office say that Collins turned herself in after Cain\u2019s body was found in Aiken County, South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Police went to Cain\u2019s home for a wellness visit after he did not show up for work on Tuesday. Upon arriving, investigators say that Cain was dead from an apparent gunshot wound. His body had been there for at least four days, according to the coroner. The man\u2019s Subaru Legacy was also missing.<\/p>\n<p>Police suspect that Collins took the vehicle.\u00a0 Along with murder, she&#8217;s being charged with grand larceny.<\/p>\n<p>During her stint as a congressional candidate, Collins said more needed to be done to \u201cshield the community from the effects of firearms falling into the wrong hands,&#8221; per a report on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjbf.com\/news\/csra-news\/former-candidate-charged-shooting-death-of-campaign-treasurer-touted-gun-control-during-race\/1359890688\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"she-ran-for-congress-on-gun-control-now-shes-charged-with-murder\" title=\"She Ran for Congress on Gun Control, Now She\u2019s Charged with Murder\">WJBF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/silver-sentenced-to-7-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"she-ran-for-congress-on-gun-control-now-shes-charged-with-murder\" title=\"She Ran for Congress on Gun Control, Now She\u2019s Charged with Murder\" rel=\"bookmark\">New York Gun Control Architect Sheldon Silver Sentenced to 7 Years in Federal Prison<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>She also told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.girlsreallyrule.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"she-ran-for-congress-on-gun-control-now-shes-charged-with-murder\" title=\"She Ran for Congress on Gun Control, Now She\u2019s Charged with Murder\">Girls Really Rule<\/a>, a feminist blog, that she would \u201cpractice what I preach and be a proponent of public policies that benefit the community as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen your friends and family are depending on you to make ethical decisions that affect their lives for many years a member of Congress should hold her or himself to a much higher standard than the bare minimum that many GOP members are currently using as a benchmark,\u201d she told the website.<\/p>\n<p>Collins would end up dropping out of the race, telling a local paper that it was for \u201cpersonal reasons.\u201d No word yet on when she\u2019s scheduled to appear in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kellie Collins, who ran as a Democrat in 2017 to represent Georgia\u2019s 10th District, is accused of fatally shooting her former campaign treasurer Curtis Cain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":95558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,216,240],"tags":[132,607],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-95557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-s-h-blannelberry","10":"category-this-week","11":"tag-buzz","12":"tag-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>She Ran for Congress on Gun Control, Now She\u2019s Charged with Murder<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kellie Collins, who ran as a Democrat in 2017 to represent Georgia\u2019s 10th District, is accused of fatally shooting her campaign treasurer Curtis Cain.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/she-ran-for-congress-on-gun-control-now-shes-charged-with-murder\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"She Ran for Congress on Gun Control, Now She\u2019s Charged with Murder\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kellie Collins, who ran as a Democrat in 2017 to represent Georgia\u2019s 10th District, is accused of fatally shooting her former campaign treasurer Curtis Cain.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/she-ran-for-congress-on-gun-control-now-shes-charged-with-murder\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-08-13T18:50:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-31T16:14:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Collins.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1058\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"706\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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