On the morning of June 18, 2014, Ross was to take his son, Cooper, to daycare on his way to work. At around 8:57 a.m., he and Cooper ate breakfast at a Chick-fil-A restaurant less than a mile from his office on Cumberland Parkway, near its intersection with Paces Ferry Road in Vinings, Georgia. Ross then drove his SUV to the Home Depot office where he worked, with Cooper strapped in a rear-facing car seat in the back. He entered the office at 9:25 a.m., leaving Cooper in the car seat. At or around 12:30 p.m., Ross was picked up from work by two friends to have lunch at a nearby Publix. Following lunch, they proceeded to a nearby Home Depot located on Cumberland Parkway, where Ross purchased light bulbs. After his friends dropped him off at his workplace parking lot, he walked to his SUV, opened the driver's side door, and placed the bulbs inside. At 4:16 p.m., approximately seven hours after initially leaving Cooper in the SUV, Ross returned to the vehicle and drove it away from his office. He had planned to visit an AMC movie theater to see 22 Jump Street with friends after work. After driving for a few minutes, Ross pulled into a shopping center parking lot, where witnesses reported hearing "squealing tires" and a man screaming, "What have I done?" Ross briefly tried to perform CPR on Cooper before a bystander took over, while other bystanders called 911. Police and firefighters that had been patrolling nearby arrived within seconds of the call; Ross was detained and, when questioned, told police he forgot that Cooper was still in his car seat. Temperatures that day had reached 92 °F (33 °C). The police estimated that Cooper likely died around noon, two and a half hours after Ross had left him in the car. During the trial, prosecutors argued that Harris killed his son intentionally so he could be free to have sex with as many women as possible. They also claimed he exchanged sexual text messages with six different people — including a 16-year-old girl — on the day his son died. A jury found Ross guilty of all counts on November 14, 2016. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole plus 32 years. On June 22, 2022, Ross's convictions of murder and cruelty relating to his son, Cooper Harris, were overturned by the Georgia Supreme Court, which concluded that he had not received a fair trial. Ross remained convicted of felony attempt to commit sexual exploitation of children and dissemination of harmful material to minors. In May 2023, prosecutors announced that he would not be retried on the murder and cruelty charges. Justin Ross Harris was freed from Macon State Prison, according to online records from the Georgia Department of Corrections. He had been serving a 10 year sentence for sex crimes against a child, the records state. According to the Associated Press, his sentence began in December 2016. Following his release, Harris was transferred to the Cobb County Jail, where he could serve the last two years of his sentence,
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