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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.
Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison (1980-1983) John Eldon Smith (September 17, 1930 – December 15, 1983) was convicted of the murders of Ronald and Juanita Akins. He was executed by the state of Georgia via electric chair at the age of 53. He became the first person to be executed in Georgia since 1976 when the death penalty ...
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. Wayne Williams, an Atlanta native who was 23 years old at the time of the last murder, was ...
Murder Kroger. Coordinates: 33.7717°N 84.3635°W. Murder Kroger is the name by which the Kroger supermarket at 725 Ponce de Leon Avenue in Poncey-Highland, Atlanta [1] has been known for decades. [2] [3] [4] The store opened in the 1980s. The store's parking lot has been the scene of two fatal shootings and the discovery of a corpse.
History. It is the third-tallest in Atlanta, reaching a height of 820 feet (250 m) with 50 stories of office space with a total building area of 1,187,676 sq.ft. [5] When the slender concrete core was completed in October 1986, it was the tallest slipformed skyscraper in the country. [6] It was completed in 1987 and remained the tallest ...
Updated June 12, 2024 at 4:54 PM. The man charged with murder and kidnapping after the hijacking of a bus in Atlanta on Tuesday was interviewed by local media about witnessing a shooting mere ...
An inmate used a gun to kill a kitchen worker at a Georgia prison early Sunday before fatally shooting himself, state officials said. The Georgia Department of Corrections in a statement said it's ...
Thompson Company, Inc. Built in phases between 1984 and 1991, the Concourse at Landmark Center is a real estate development in metro Atlanta 's Perimeter Center business district, in the city of Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States. It is a 70 acre planned community with two 34- story office towers, several low-rise office buildings, a hotel ...