Shubert Arraignment Cancelled
A new arraignment date for Brent Shubert, the Canon man accused in the January 2013 murder of his fiancé, Bonnie Anne Cooner has not yet been set.
Shubert was set to be arraigned in Franklin County Superior Court on Monday, but it never took place.
Northern Judicial Circuit District Attorney Parks White said Monday, due a mix up in his office, Shubert’s attorney had not been notified of the arraignment date.
In March 2013, the Franklin County Grand Jury indicted the 38-year old Shubert on one count of malice murder, one count of felony murder and one count of concealing the death of another.
On the first count, the grand jury concluded that on January 28th did unlawfully and with malice of forethought strangle Cooner.
Count two of the indictment alleges that Shubert did, while committing the felony of aggravated assault, strangled Cooner with a wire, which caused her death.
Under count three, the grand jury said Shubert intentionally concealed her death.
Cooner went missing in late January last year from the home she and her 12-year old son shared with Shubert on Unawatti Road in Canon.
An intensive search was launched to find Cooner that involved Franklin County Sheriff’s investigators, the GBI as well as friends and relatives.
At one point, Shubert told CBS Atlanta that Cooner had been moody and acting strangely just before she disappeared.
Cooner’s body was found February 10, 2013 down an abandoned well near her home. Shubert was arrested several hours later in Anderson, SC and returned to Franklin County. He was denied bond and remains in the Franklin County Detention Center.
The District Attorney is seeking the death penalty.