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The Atlanta murders of 1979–1981, sometimes called the Atlanta child murders, are a series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia, between July 1979 and May 1981. Over the two-year period, at least 28 children, adolescents , and adults were killed.
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Rayshard Brooks was a 27-year-old African American restaurant worker who lived in Atlanta. [11] He had been married eight years and had three daughters and a stepson. [12] [13] In August 2014, he was convicted and sentenced to a year in prison on four counts, including false imprisonment and felony cruelty to children. [14]
Leaving Atlanta is the first novel by the American author Tayari Jones.The book was published by Warner Books in 2002. [1] Jones's experiences through the Atlanta child murders of 1979–1981 largely inspired the book.
A child was killed and two other people were injured in a crash outside the Mall of Georgia, according to police. ... Buford is about a 40-mile drive northeast from downtown Atlanta.
Twenty children were killed in this incident. Atlanta prison riots — A series of riots in 1987. More than 100 people were taken hostage, and a portion of the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary was burned. Centennial Olympic Park bombing — A terrorist bombing that killed two people and injured 111 others during the 1996 Summer Olympics.
A sick Atlanta mother convicted of slowly cooking her two toddler sons alive in an oven — and then sending their father footage afterwards — will spend the rest of her life in prison, a judge ...