The Georgia Bureau of Investigation released the body of admitted murderer Ryan Brunn to a North Georgia funeral home after a GBI autopsy Friday determined his cause of death. Brunn, 20, pleaded guilty last week to the Dec. 2 sexual molestation of 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera of Canton and was sentenced to life in prison. Two days later he committed suicide at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.  A spokesman for Banister Funeral Home in Dahlonega on Tuesday declined, at the family's request, to give details of any memorial service.

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Demonstrators protest President Donald Trump and Elon Musk on Presidents Day in front of the Capitol in Atlanta on Monday, February 17, 2025, as part of nationwide demonstrations organized by the 50501 movement. (Arvin Temkar / AJC)

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