ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — The Paulding County coroner is launching another inquiry into a woman’s infamous 2017 death. In February, the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office said 35-year-old Heather Turner, who was found with a gunshot wound to the head at her Dallas home, died of suicide. But Corner Lindsey Fuller has announced a coroner’s inquest, during which a jury is tasked with determining how someone died. The jury of five, with one alternate, will hear the evidence and decide next January whether Turner’s death was a homicide, a suicide, an accident, by natural causes or undetermined. The inquest isn’t a trial or a prosecution, Fuller said. Its only purpose is to decide Turner’s cause of death. “Heather Turner was more than how she died. She was not a headline. She was not a case file. She was not a case to close. She was a person. And I think over the years, many people have lost sight of that,” Fuller said. “…Her death deserves to be examined through a process that is fair, impartial, transparent and provided for by the law.” PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Woman’s death ruled suicide in Paulding County cold case, sheriff says Turner’s body was found on May 4, 2017. Her manner of death went undetermined for nearly a decade — in part, according to Sheriff Ashley Henson, due to misinformation about the case and the mishandling of evidence. “We changed our protocol in the way we process crime scenes,” he said in February. “We now photograph more thoroughly. We actually also…
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