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Melton, Chief Justice. Following a jury trial, Demarquis Antonio Glenn appeals his convictions for the murder of Quentieria Knight and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.[1] Glenn contends that the trial court abused its discretion when it denied his motion to suppress. For the reasons below, we affirm. 1. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence presented at trial shows the following. At 11:30 p.m. on April 28, 2016, Knight clocked out from her shift at the Elberta Crate and Box Company. A coworker saw Knight give a ride to Glenn, who worked with Knight. Glenn got into the passenger side of Knight’s white Chevrolet Cobalt carrying a drawstring bag. Knight never arrived home. The next morning, Knight’s vehicle was discovered, still running, parked on the side of the road. Knight, who had suffered multiple gunshot wounds to her face, neck, and hands, was dead in the driver’s seat. The police obtained records from a GPS tracker installed in Knight’s car. The tracker showed that, after Knight’s vehicle left the Elberta Crate and Box Company, it traveled west on Highway 27, where it came to a stop at the intersection of Highway 27 and Zorn Road at 11:46 p.m. and did not move again. Video surveillance recordings from a nearby convenience store showed Glenn walking up to the store from the direction of Knight’s vehicle at 11:53 p.m. Several minutes later, Glenn’s cousin Terrence Baker pulled up to the convenience store. After hanging out at the store for about ten minutes, Glenn and Baker got in Baker’s car. The recording showed Glenn wearing a black, drawstring bag on his back as he entered Baker’s car. Baker then drove Glenn home. Glenn and Baker were interviewed by the police on the afternoon of April 29, 2016. After the interviews, police obtained a search warrant for Glenn’s residence to look for the drawstring bag and any firearms or ammunition. In the ensuing search, police found a Hi-Point 9mm pistol, along with 9mm ammunition. Testing revealed that the bullets and casings recovered from the crime scene and from Knight’s body had been fired by the gun recovered from Glenn’s residence. A firearms transaction report showed that Glenn purchased the pistol from a local pawn shop in 2014. Although Glenn does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his convictions, as is our practice in murder cases, we have reviewed the record and conclude that the evidence presented at trial was sufficient for the jury to find Glenn guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the crimes for which he was convicted. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319 (III) (B) (99 SCt 2781, 61 LE2d 560) (1979). 2. In his sole enumeration of error, Glenn argues that the trial court wrongly denied his motion to suppress because the affidavit submitted in support of the search warrant did not establish with reasonable probability that the contemplated evidence would be present at his home. A trial court’s ruling on a motion to suppress is reviewed for abuse of discretion. Jordan v. State, 303 Ga. 709, 712 (2) (814 SE2d 682) (2018). However, in this case, there is nothing to review, as the transcript of the motion hearing and the trial court’s written order are not part of the appellate record. The motion to suppress was filed, argued, and ruled upon while the first indictment was in effect. Glenn filed his notice of appeal under the second indictment number. Thus, the appellate record only contains records related to the second indictment. Unless motions that were ruled upon under a previous indictment are renewed or incorporated into the operative indictment, they are not automatically part of the record. See, e.g., Banks v. State, 251 Ga. App. 421, 422 (554 SE2d 500) (2001) (at State’s request, the trial court adopted and incorporated prior motions from two previous indictments as part of the record for the third indictment). “It is the burden of the appellant to ensure that the record is complete, and when this is not done, there is nothing for the appellate court to review.” (Punctuation and quotation omitted.) Johnson v. State, 296 Ga. 504, 507 (3) (769 SE2d 87) (2015). Judgment affirmed. Nahmias, P. J., and Blackwell, Boggs, Peterson, Warren, Bethel, and Ellington, JJ., concur.

 
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