A 1-year-old Georgia boy is back in his mother’s arms after he was kidnapped at gunpoint on Saturday and driven across the metropolitan Atlanta area before Georgia state troopers stopped the vehicle. The boy, Mateo Alejandro Montufar-Barrera, was disguised as a baby girl but unharmed and reunited with his mother, Leslie Bamaca, at the Chamblee …
A south Georgia high school football player died early Friday after he was shot through the walls of his apartment while he was sleeping. Cenquez Jermaine Perry, 17, was reportedly hit several times by gunshots fired through the outside walls of the building, WTXI said, citing the Quitman Police Department. Quitman police requested assistance from …
A Georgia mother and three men have been arrested after a Snapchat video showed two of the men “horse-playing” with a 6-year-old boy in a manner that seemed “too rough.” Monroe County deputies said that they received a complaint from someone who viewed the video on May 31 sparked an investigation, according to Fox24. On …
Former Cleveland Browns Pro Bowl linebacker Chip Banks is in serious condition following a shooting in Atlanta, the Associated Press said Saturday. Atlanta police spokeswoman Marla Rooker told the AP that Banks was one of three men with gunshot wounds found by officers responding to reports of a shooting at around 1 p.m. on Wednesday. …
A Georgia State Patrol trooper has been fired and charged with murder in the August 7 shooting death of a 60-year-old man who tried to flee a traffic stop, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Jacob Gordon Thompson, 27, has been charged with felony murder and aggravated assault in the incident and booked into …
A 2-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the head Saturday morning in northwest Atlanta and remained in critical condition on Sunday, WSB reports. The incident took place at around 10 a.m., Atlanta police said. Atlanta police announced on Sunday they had arrested Dontavious Wells, 31, multiple counts related to the shooting. “It appears the child …
The officer said he fired at a vehicle that drove toward him not at three young children who left the vehicle and ran home to get their father.
Police in west Georgia arrested a 44-year-old man Friday, charging him with a brutal attack on his ex-girlfriend that left the woman hospitalized with significant burns. Sherry Hardnett flagged down a LaGrange police officer at about 5 a.m. Friday, telling them that her ex-boyfriend, Damario Davis, broke into her home while she was out and …
Georgia officials are reportedly investigating child molestation allegations levied against one of the three men charged with murdering Ahmaud Arbery. WTLV-WJXX acquired the fact sheet of the ongoing investigation involving William “Roddie” Bryan Jr., 50. Earlier this month, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) confirmed Bryan was being investigated for alleged sex-related crimes in Camden …
A Georgia woman was kidnapped early Monday morning and left dead 20 miles away in Alabama, while the suspects led police on an 80 mile chase across eastern Alabama until they crashed north of Montgomery. Tameka Skinner, 39, was found shot to death near Seale, Alabama, at about 11:30 a.m., the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reported, some …
Georgia detectives used top end technology to track a homicide suspect Sunday night as he fled across Alabama and into Mississippi, where he was arrested, the Spalding County Sheriff’s Office said. Just before 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Munteshia Brown, 38, was found dead of an apparent gunshot wound in the parking lot of Macedonia Baptist Church, …
A suspect was arrested Thursday morning in the two-year-old slaying of 71-year-old Georgia socialite Kay Thomasson in a northern Atlanta suburb, the Sandy Springs Police Department announced. Thomasson was killed by a stab to the back of the neck on June 27, 2018. Her body was found hours later by a family member after she …
