Shootings and Violent Crime

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (160+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta Two people are in custody, and police are actively searching for a third after shots were fired inside Piedmont Park on Wednesday afternoon. Officers were at the park within two minutes after receiving calls of…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (323+ words) Convicted killer Stacey Humphreys is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 16. According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, Humphreys will be put to death at 7 p.m. that night at the Georgia Diagnostic and classification Prison. But before he receives the lethal…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (913+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta Help us grow our newsletter! Do you know a friend or neighbor who would enjoy our weekly newsletter on Norcross? Please have them subscribe here. 👮 Norcross celebrates milestone Friday, Sept. 4 — Hey, it’s Hayden with my…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (215+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta The Atlanta Police Department Homicide Unit is investigating two separate homicides that occurred in Buckhead and in Downtown Atlanta. Just after 1:30 a.m. this morning, Sept. 4, officers responded to a person shot at the Mezzo Apartments at…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (158+ words) FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A 42-year-old Gainesville man was arrested Aug. 15 in connection with a Cherokee County shooting. The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were advised to look out for the man after receiving a bulletin from Cherokee County. Deputies…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (178+ words) Christopher Castillo was arrested by Cobb County police officers one day after the 17-year-old was named a suspect in the murder of a man found dead in a Sandy Springs apartment complex. SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Christopher Castillo was arrested by…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (253+ words) The Sandy Springs Police Department on Aug. 31 announced the arrest of 17-year-old Christopher Castillo, charged with murder in the Aug. 28 fatal shooting of 25-year-old Williams Lopez Rodriguez. When officers entered the victim’s residence, the man was found with an apparent…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (167+ words) Two Roswell residents reported hearing six gunshots early on August 28 near Martin Lake. Police searched the area but found no evidence of shooting or related damage at nearby properties. — Two residents living on Quail Run near Martin Lake…...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago   (211+ words) Friends and family are remembering Ramon Harris, the 29-year-old man who died in a stabbing along the Atlanta Beltline on Aug. 23. Channel 2’s Ashlyn Webb spoke to several of his friends at a vigil for Harris on Saturday in Freedom…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (154+ words) ALPHARETTA, Ga. — A 30-year-old Oxford, Georgia, man was arrested on a battery of a law enforcement officer charge after he was ordered to leave a Milton Avenue bar Aug. 16. Alpharetta police said bar security personnel asked the man to leave…...