6 p.m. update: The Fulton County, Georgia Medical Examiner has ruled the deaths of an Atlanta police office and his girlfriend a murder-suicide. The medical examiner said that Kevin Stroner, 56, shot 44-year-old Moriah Cardona dead and then shot himself, home. Original story: An Atlanta police officer and a woman were found dead Saturday in …
An Atlanta father is charged with murder in the shooting death of his son outside an apartment complex in the city’s tony Buckhead neighborhood early Thursday morning. Atlanta Police said a woman at the complex called 911 about a domestic dispute with her boyfriend shortly after midnight, WAGA reported. They arrived and interviewed the pair, …
A 16-year-old Atlanta boy is dead after his mother’s boyfriend mistook him for a burglar and shot him early Monday morning as he was returning home. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’ Office identified the victim as Daquavius Royalston, according to WAGA. “Appears to be a true tragedy,” said Atlanta Police Homicide Commander Lt. Andrew Smith. …
A gunman opened fire at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta late Friday afternoon, killing a local police officer but striking no other people. The shooter, whose identity has not been released, was found dead in the 2nd floor of a building that houses a CVS drugstore at Emory Point, across the …
An Atlanta couple is dead and the woman’s son is in custody for their murders after police responded to a call for a welfare check and ended up in a standoff. Police identified the dead couple only as a 80 year-old man and a 40-year-old woman, but a woman who identified herself to WSB as …
A 19-year-old Texas man was arrested in Atlanta Saturday night after he allegedly shot and killed a 70-year-old man in a carjacking outside a liquor store. According to WSB, officers were called to the scene of the shooting shortly before 7 p.m. The man, whose identity has not been released, was pronounced dead at a …
An Atlanta mother was convicted of killing her two toddler sons in her kitchen oven and sentenced to life without parole plus 35 years. Lamora Williams, 24, was convicted on 14 counts, including murder, in the 2017 incident, according to WAGA. Williams initially claimed she left 1-year-old Ja’Karter Penn and 2-year-old Ke’Yaunte Penn with a …
A security guard at an Atlanta apartment complex for seniors and people with disabilities was arrested last week and charged with stabbing a 90-year-old resident more than 50 times last month. Chun Ki Kim was found dead on his kitchen floor of his fifth floor apartment on September 25, stabbed in the torso and face, …
A 35-year-old Georgia woman found dead in the backseat of a car at an Atlanta transit station earlier this month was shot to death. Fulton County Medical Examiner ruled Chanell Crosby’s death to be a homicide, WXIA reported. Crosby, whose 13-year-old son Jamiren was shot to death in a still-unsolved murder in 2022, was last …
An Arizona man has been arrested for planning a mass shooting in Atlanta targeting African Americans, Jews, or Muslims specifically to start a race war. Mark Adams Prieto allegedly sold rifles at gun shows, often “off book,” and discussed his plans to start a race war ahead of the presidential election in November, the US …
Three people were shot Tuesday afternoon in a downtown Atlanta mall food court before an off-duty police officer shot the suspect and ended the gunfire. Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said that the 34-year-old suspect came into the food court in Peachtree Center on Peachtree Street and got into an argument with another man, WAGA …
One person is dead from a gunshot wound after a wild chase involving a transit bus from downtown Atlanta into the northern suburbs. Atlanta police said they responded to the initial report of a dispute on a Gwinnett County Transit bus on Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard, WSB reported. But when they approached the scene, the …
