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This is how the search for a man wanted for wife's alleged murder ended

Brantly Wommack said it wasn't how he expected to spend his Friday night. But the sound of the family dog barking set off a chain of events that put him in the middle of a county-wide manhunt for an alleged murderer.

WALTON COUNTY, Ga. — The hunt for an alleged murderer came to a dramatic end Friday after a father and son faced down the suspect.

Jerome Mobley was on the run for three days after authorities said he shot and killed his wife.

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11Alive spoke to the men who helped bring the manhunt to an end.

Brantly Wommack said it wasn't how he expected to spend his Friday night. But the sound of the family dog barking set off a chain of events that put him in the middle of a county-wide manhunt for an alleged murderer.

"(The) Dogs started going crazy, so I just yelled at my dogs like usual, 'Hey, go get em'," he recounted.

Brantley said he saw a man stand up and run into the field behind his home. Brantley ran in the house to get his father, Mark.

"We walked outside and went out to the edge of the field," Mark said. "I had kept up with the search for Jerome in this area."

Mark said he had his gun, just in case. He knew Walton County Sheriff's deputies had been searching for Mobley since Wednesday, when he escaped into the woods after allegedly shooting his wife in front of their children. Mobley was a fugitive, until he wandered onto the Wommack's property.

"I didn't see him, but I called his name, and as soon as I called his name, he shot," Mark recounted.

The Wommacks ducked, thinking Mobley was shooting at them.

"Then he came out of the brush with a big hole in his face where he had just shot himself," Brantley described. "We were telling him to stay on the ground, and after a while we started hear ing the sirens."

Mobley survived his injury, and will eventually answer for his alleged crime.

"I hope they punish him to the letter of the law," Brantley said. "To take somebody's life is one thing, but to take somebody's life in front of your kids... There's only one place you can put him, and I think that's where he'll be."

There had been a $2,500 reward for Mobley's capture, but authorities haven't said whether the Wommacks will be the ones to get it.

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