A cab driver reported that he was robbed by a woman, who hailed his cab in Roswell, following what appeared to be a domestic argument between the woman and another man. She walked to his cab and asked him to take her downtown. The driver said that when he reached Central Parkway, the woman pulled a gun on him, made him pull over near a parking deck, and robbed him. The officer, after speaking with the man, advised him that the parking deck area had cameras which may have captured the robbery. The officer also noted that he found an open condom package next to the cab. The victim then said the suspect propositioned him for oral sex and then while he was applying the proper safe-sex apparatus, the woman pulled a gun and robbed him. She then pulled the wiring from his microphone and then while running away, fired the gun. A shell casing was found near the car. There are many morals to this story I suppose. Take your pick.
With the exception of the two Llamas who fell out of the trailer on I-285 Friday, not much has been going on.
By the way, the Llamas are doing well. One had a bloody lip and the other a swollen eye. Some of you may remember about 20 years ago a cattle truck wrecked on I-285 and Roswell Road. Several cattle were killed but a number of them escaped and for weeks ran amok in the Golden Ghetto.
A man shot and killed a teenage boy Friday after the youth and some other juveniles tried to break into the man's northwest Atlanta home, police said.
The shooting occurred around 1:15 p.m. at 1426 Hawkins Street, off Chappell Road, police said.
The victim is 15 or 16 years old, said Lt. Keith Meadows, commander of the Atlanta Police Department homicide unit. He said several juveniles tried break into the back door of a house.
Atlanta police Friday were investigating the death of a man who plunged from a high-rise condominium building.
The man, whose identity had not been determined, apparently fell or jumped from the 11th floor of the Plaza Midtown complex about 11:30 a.m., Atlanta police spokesman Ronald Campbell said.
The man's body landed on the sidewalk in front of a restaurant in the building, which is in on West Peachtree Street north of 8th Street.
Smash-and-grab burglars hit another Atlanta retail store early Friday, but this time, instead of stealing high-dollar blue jeans, they took designer eyeglasses and sunglasses.
The thieves shattered the front door of the Pearle Vision store on Lenox Road in Buckhead shortly before 3 a.m. Atlanta police Sgt. J.A. Branum said.
Store employees estimated that the thieves made off with about $150,000 in merchandise.
Family seeks rings missing since woman died in wreck
The wedding and engagement rings Katherine Armstrong designed for herself symbolized her pact with a man who was gone much of the time.
Her husband flew Navy fighter jets, and for most of their dozen years together, even at the birth of their first son, he was serving overseas. On her left hand, the antique-meets-modern rings signaled he would be coming home.
Last week, it was Katherine, 35, who was suddenly gone — the victim of an April 30 car wreck — and so was her $5,000 set of rings.
In the continuing drama (or comedy, which appears to be the emerging reaction from the public) the Lithonia City Council, police and the mayor are still at it I think.
I'm not sure. I mean, every once in a while the mayor gets on TV and shows off her new bruise and claims a bunch of new stuff-dramatically delivering a very emotional but, sadly, boring view of whatever she was talking about.
This comes as no surprise to the people of Lithonia. Apparently there is a history. An April 25th article in the AJC noted that in 2005, newly elected councilwoman Linda Pruett complained that her neighbor blew leaves onto her yard.
A gas main break shut down Buford Highway in northeast Atlanta Thursday morning.
Atlanta fire Capt. Bill May said a backhoe punctured a gas main in the 2500 block of Lenox Road at Buford Highway at about 8:15 a.m.
Buford Highway remained closed between Lenox Road and Sidney Marcus Boulevard at 9:45 a.m., and officials with the state Department of Transportation estimated it would be around 10:30 before the road reopened.
No injuries were reported Tuesday in an early morning fire at a Southwest Atlanta apartment complex. Atlanta fire Capt. Bill May said about 6-8 families were displaced by the fire, in a two-story brick building at the Cascade Colony apartments.
The complex is on Mount Gilead Road next to I-285 south of Cascade Road. May said the cause of the fire, which broke out around 5 a.m., had not been determined.
