Richard Gear Indicted in Shooting Death of Bryan Joseph "B.J." Mough

June 05, 2008

An Oconee County grand jury has indicted 45-year-old Richard Harold Gear on murder charges in the shooting death of 21-year-old Bryan Joseph "B.J." Mough.

After reviewing all of the evidence in the case, Jurors returned a six-count indictment, charging Gear with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.

Following the jury's decision, Chief Judge Lawton Stephens denied Gear's request for bond.

"The court is unable to find that the defendant poses no significant threat or danger to the community," Lawton said.

Gear has been behind bars since February when he was arrested for shooting Mough.

According to police, Gear's two daughters, ages 17 and 19, called their father from their cell phones on the evening of Feb. 25, and told him that Mough was following them on a motorcycle. The girls allegedly said that the incident started when they made obscene gestures at him after he cut them off in the Target parking lot. The girls also claimed that Mough had run his motorcycle into the back of their Nissan Sentra.

When the girls pulled up to their family home, Gear was standing in the driveway with a loaded .40-caliber semi-automatic handgun. Mough initially continued driving down the road but then turned around to pass by the house again. When Mough drove by the second time, Gear raised his handgun and...

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Richard Gear Photo Credit: Police file photo