Police: Fatal bullet fired through wall hit man not involved in argument

Kevin Millsap remains in the Polk County Jail without bond on charges including felony murder.

A Lindale man remained in jail without bond Thursday on a felony murder charge after police say he shot through a wall into another room, killing a Cedartown man.

According to Polk County Police Chief Kenny Dodd, Kevin B. Millsap, 55, of 77 Pullen Road, Lindale, was jailed earlier this week on felony murder, aggravated assault and tampering with evidence charges.

Thomas Elbert Mills, 49, of 132 E. Point Road in Cedartown, was killed during the early morning hours of Nov. 6.

According to witness statements, Mills wasn’t involved at all in the early morning altercation that began when Millsap came to the East Point Road home.

Millsap had arrived to confront another person and during the argument words became more heated and Millsap fired off a single round to threaten and scare the person he was arguing with at the time, Dodd said.

That round went through two sheet rock panels and struck Mills in the head while he was sitting on a couch in another room.

Emergency responders arrived at the scene around 2:10 a.m. and rushed Mills to the hospital. He was pronounced dead at 2:58 a.m. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was called in to assist in the case, and Mill’s body was taken to the GBI crime lab in Decatur for a full autopsy.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Millsap had not yet been before the Tallapoosa Circuit Superior Court for a first appearance, and no bail has yet been set.

He is also charged with misdemeanor pointing or aiming a gun or pistol at another and reckless conduct.