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July 30, 2024 at 11:58 PM. SOUTH FULTON, Ga. - Police in the city of South Fulton are investigating a shooting at a gas station on Tuesday evening. The shooting happened at the Shell gas station ...
August 5, 2024 at 4:40 PM. Melvin Potter. SOUTH FULTON, Ga. - An Atlanta police officer has been charged in connection with an early morning shooting outside a bar in South Fulton. Melvin Potter ...
Deaths. Rayshard Brooks. On the night of June 12, 2020, Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old African American man, was confronted by officers of the APD and was shot by Atlanta Police Department (APD) officer Garrett Rolfe. APD officer Devin Brosnan was responding to a complaint that Brooks was asleep in a car in a Wendy's restaurant drive-through lane.
Brian Gene Nichols (born December 10, 1971) is a convicted murderer known for his escape and killing spree in the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 11, 2005. Nichols was on trial for rape when he escaped custody and murdered Rowland Barnes, the judge presiding over his trial, a court reporter, a Fulton County Sheriff's ...
The shooting in Winder, a city of 18,000 some 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Atlanta, revived both the national debate about gun control and the outpouring of grief that follows in a country where ...
Crime in Atlanta, Georgia is above the national median and has been a major problem for the city since the middle 20th century. Atlanta’s public safety improvement between 2001 and 2009 occurred at more than twice the rate of the rest of the country. [2] After ranking in the top five highest violent crime cities for most of the previous three ...
At around 8:30 p.m., roughly 3.5 hours after the shootings, Long was spotted by police in Crisp County, about 150 miles (240 km) south of Atlanta. Georgia State Patrol officers followed him south on Interstate 75 until a location just south of Cordele, where they used a PIT maneuver to stop his vehicle and took him into custody.
Editor's Note: This page is a summary of news on the Georgia school shooting for Wednesday, Sept. 4. For the latest news, view our story for Thursday, Sept. 5. Four people were fatally shot and ...