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Sentencing expected for man found guilty of vicious assault on UGA student

UGA Police

Sentencing is expected this week for a man convicted of a vicious assault on a UGA student in September of last year.

Tritavious Harris was found guilty Friday of attacking the then 19 year old woman, leaving her with a brain concussion, a broken collar bone, bruises and scrapes.

The case was investigated by UGA police, who provided downtown surveillance videos showing a man following the student from Broad Street to the parking deck. The attack was recorded on video through a glass partition in the stairwell portion of the parking deck…it ended when two college age men approached the scene and Harris ran off.

Police say, though, the men walked by, glanced at the woman and continued on. Harris was found guilty of attempted rape, aggravated assault, robbery and aggravated battery. Jurors acquitted Harris of attempted aggravated sodomy, kidnapping and one count of sexual battery.

Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.