Five people, including two children, were found dead Saturday night in Georgia in what police say is a murder-suicide. Dekalb County Police responded to an apartment complex just outside Atlanta’s East Atlanta neighborhood at about 7:30 p.m. for a welfare check and found the victims inside, WANF reported. They said the victims were a 43-year-old …
A suspect has been arrested in the deaths of a Georgia couple found shot to death last week inside a burning home. Firefighters found the bodies of Brittany Hall, 28, and Derris Woods, 35, in the home near Panthersville after extinguishing the September 9 blaze, WSB reported. The DeKalb County Medical Examiner’s Office said on …
An arrest has been made in Tennessee after a woman reported missing earlier this month was found dead in a vehicle in the middle of a DeKalb County cornfield five days later. Joshua Wayne Goff has been charged with abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence, the Warren County Sheriff’s Office said on Monday. …
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 …
A Georgia man has been charged with murder after a toddler shot himself in the face. DeKalb County police said that Antoine Jordan left his gun loaded and unsecured, and the 3-year-old boy found it, WSB reported. When officers arrived at the home at about 7 a.m. Saturday, they learned that the child’s mother had …
A 7-year-old boy was one of the victims in a double murder suicide in suburban Atlanta on Monday. DeKalb County Police said they found the boy, a 49-year-old woman, and a 51-year-old man dead just after 3 p.m., WANF said. Police have not released the names of the victims and suspect, who investigators believe was …
On Sunday, a child’s body was reportedly discovered in the closet of a Georgia residence. Residents at the DeKalb County apartment complex told WSB-TV that the mummified body was that of a child, but police have not yet confirmed this. However, the news outlet reported that it reviewed graphic video footage which showed the body …
An hours-long hostage situation-turned-standoff in suburban Atlanta ended ended with a man dead and the woman who’d been held against her will safe. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said that a 911 caller told dispatchers at about 3:30 a.m. that he was texting with a resident of the Lithonia home who said he had locked …
A Georgia tire shop employee is dead after a customer fatally shot him, mistakenly believing he was stealing his car. Quadarius McDowell, 30, took his car to a Tires Plus location in Decatur for repairs early Saturday afternoon. At some point, an employee — identified as Daniel Gordon, 24 — went to retrieve the vehicle. …
A northeast Alabama man has been arrested and charged with killing his 62-year-old mother. DeKalb County emergency officials responded to a home in Collinsville Tuesday night and found Sandra Jelks dead in her living room, WDEF reported. Jelks was the mother of a DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office employee, so Sheriff Nick Welden asked deputies in …
Detectives working the unsolved murder of a 13-year-old Georgia boy last week released a video showing the boy caught on a backyard camera walking with another person about an hour after he was last seen alive. Jamiren Crosby’s body was found in the woods behind a townhome in Lithonia on September 19 by a woman …
Georgia police found a toddler in an abandon car on an interstate highway during Friday’s afternoon rush hour. Dekalb County police said they pulled up on the car on Interstate 20 east of Atlanta at about 5:30 p.m. on Friday. The car was empty but for a 2-year-old in the back seat, WSB reported. Police …
