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Left: Mamadi Tambajang (Sandy Springs Police Department). Right: Amber Kelly (JP Holley Funeral Home).
A Georgia resident has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the brutal killing of his girlfriend, whom he beat and stomped to death before delaying more than a day to inform the authorities.
Mamadi Tambajang was found guilty of murdering 31-year-old Amber Kelly in their Sandy Springs apartment. He received a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 50 years, according to police reports.
On May 15, 2024, Tambajang approached the Sandy Springs Police Department, confessing that he wished to surrender for assaulting his girlfriend. He requested that officers perform a welfare check on her at their residence, as he was unsure of her condition. Upon investigation, they discovered she had been fatally beaten.
“The crime scene was horrific,” Asia Baysah, deputy district attorney for Fulton County, shared with local ABC affiliate WSB. “He was aware she wasn’t alright. She suffered over 25 different blunt force injuries to her body.”
Prosecutors revealed to WSB that Tambajang had been previously involved in two other domestic violence incidents concerning Kelly. Approximately a year prior to her death, she had contacted police for assistance.
“He’s a violent person, and he threatened to murder me twice this week,” she told dispatchers in a call obtained by WSB.
Family told the outlet that it repeatedly advised Kelly to leave Tambajang, but she believed he could be a good man. The abuse continued and eventually led to her death.
Prosecutors said that Tambajang claimed he simply “snapped.”
“He said that he was provoked to inflict those injuries upon Amber,” Fulton County Assistant District Attorney Jazmin Dilligard said in an interview with WSB.
Cops believe the suspect murdered Kelly a day or two before he turned himself in. After he killed her, he reportedly drove to his mother’s house in South Carolina before he drove to Sandy Springs police and expressed concern about Kelly’s well-being.
“It was fake. If he was truly concerned about her, he would have called 911,” said Dilligard. “He did everything but seek medical treatment.”
Kelly’s mother Sharon Henderson recalled when cops knocked on her door to alert her of her daughter’s death.
“I felt like my heart stopped beating the moment I found out that my baby was no longer here with us,” she told WSB.