Local Stories for April 2012
Stories for Monday, April 30
Classmates defend student charged in post-prom crash
The mother of a teenager killed while heading to a post-prom party says she is not angry at the man accused of her daughter's death. Channel 2's Kerry Kavanaugh spoke to the mother of 16-year-old Johlonda Lindsey, who visited Dejon Wideman, the girl's Meadowcreek High School classmate facing vehicular homicide ...
FBI questions vendors in airport controversy
Channel 2 Action News has confirmed federal agents are now involved in the concessions contract scandal at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Several vendors who submitted bids for food and beverage contracts told Channel 2 investigative reporter Jodie Fleischer that agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation approached them with questions ...
Publix opposes controversial Buckhead business
The Publix supermarket chain is the latest group to oppose a new business in the Chastain Square shopping plaza. Channel 2 Action News broke the news about the controversial business last week. The business owner told neighbors it is going to be a restaurant, but an online post suggested operating ...
Police: Man shot several times at auto shop was targeted
Johns Creek police say a shooting outside a local auto repair shop was not random. Investigators said Anthony Davis, 37, was shot several times in the chest and body at a business at the corner of Old Alabama and Jones Bridge Roads on April 20. The victim's friends drove him ...
Atlanta neighborhoods to be tested for toxic lead
Some neighborhoods could soon be tested for toxic lead residue after soil samples from a now-defunct factory in northeast Atlanta showed potentially unsafe concentrations of lead. The Environmental Protection Agency tested for lead concentration in samples from 740 Lambert Drive near the Buford Connector. A cement factory is ...
Prosecutors: Deputy killer confessed in texts
Prosecutors say a man accused of killing a Clayton County deputy confessed shortly after the crime. Channel 2’s Tom Jones went to a Clayton County court where opening statements in the suspect's trial began Tuesday. Jonathan Bun is charged with killing Deputy Rick Daly. Daly, 55, was assisting the fugitive ...
Family outraged by officer-involved shooting
Police said a man wounded in an officer-involved shooting was walking around a neighborhood with a loaded shotgun during the incident. The shooting happened at approximately 11:30 a.m. in the 500 block of Paines Avenue near North Avenue in northwest Atlanta. Relatives of Eric Williams said the incident has left ...
Bicyclist hit by truck in Decatur dies
A bicyclist struck and pinned under a truck Monday morning has died. Decatur police said the man was struck early Monday morning at North Decatur Road and Willivee Drive. The man, who did not have any identification on him, was pronounced dead at DeKalb Medical Center. The Decatur Fire Department ...
Can Canadian oil sand fuel Georgia’s future?
Channel 2 Action News consumer investigator Jim Strickland recently traveled to a sometimes brutal wilderness in Alberta, Canada, where vast oil reserves will help fuel Georgia's future. Strickland received rare access inside Canada's oil sands, including inside the gates of Suncor Energy. Twenty-five kilometers outside of the oil town of ...
Woman killed during custody exchange
DeKalb police have charged a man with murder after a fight during the custody exchange of a 4-year-old boy turned deadly. Police have not released the identity of the man taken into custody, but relatives of a woman involved said he is the new boyfriend of the mother involved in ...
Driver charged with vehicular homicide in crash that killed teen
Police say a 19-year-old has been charged in the death of a Meadowcreek High student killed on the way to a post-prom party. Dejon Wideman was allegedly speeding with a car full of his friends, and now he is charged with felony vehicular homicide and several other charges. Johlonda Lindsey ...
Toddler rescued after falling down 20-foot drain
The East Point Fire Department used its smallest firefighter to go into a storm drain and rescue a 1-year-old child who had fallen inside. East Point firefighters said Darnell Brown was sitting on the storm drain cover Sunday night and when he stood up, his foot slipped into the drain. ...
Stories for Sunday, April 29
Teen dead, 3 injured heading to after-prom party
A teen is dead after a trip to a after-prom party took a devastating turn that has loved ones struggling to cope with the girl's sudden loss. Johlonda Lindsey died in a Sunday morning car crash that hurt three others along Steve Reynolds Boulevard near Beaver Ruin Road in Gwinnett ...
Cartersville church 'making progress' one year after tornado
A Cartersville church congregation is remembering the devastating tornado that destroyed their church building one year ago. Construction on the sanctuary is still under way. But Crowe Springs Baptist Church parishioners said they are making remarkable progress. "Today is a day that we should worship and praise God that ...
Man accused of shooting relatives appears in court
A double murder suspect arrived at the Whitfield County jail late Sunday afternoon. Deputies said 27-year-old Emilio Christopher Canales shot and killed his father and brother on Dude Street in Dalton on Sunday morning. The suspect's mother was also shot, but she survived. Investigators said the family had an argument, ...
2 suspects wanted in officer-involved shooting
One suspect is recovering from an officer-involved shooting, while police are looking for two more. The Saturday afternoon incident started when officers spotted a black Honda Civic that belonged to a man who was just carjacked at gunpoint in an area strip mall parking lot off Fairburn Road in south ...
Student's robbery near AUC campus marks second this weekend
A theology student said he was robbed at gunpoint for the second time near the Atlanta University campus, just one day after five people were targeted in the same area in southwest Atlanta. The latest victim, who didn't want to be identified, said two men with guns robbed him ...
Wild dogs slaughter goats near school
Police are searching for a pack of wild dogs that killed animals on school property. The Jefferson police chief said he wants to round up the dogs before they attack a child. "My concern is if they're attacking goats, one might attack a kid," said Chief Joe Wirthman. "Right now, ...
Stories for Saturday, April 28
Parents: Driver lacks remorse for running over, killing child
The parents of a toddler knocked out of her stroller and killed said they are still struggling to find closure although a woman has pleaded guilty in the child's death. "That's something that I will hear and see in my mind replay over and over again in my life. That's ...
Police: Mother made son turn himself in for stolen car
The mother of a 15-year-old boy made the teen turn himself in to police after he was caught in a stolen car. Police said they received a 911 call about several underage teens driving wrecklessly on Hill Street in southeast Atlanta around midnight. When officers tried to pull over the ...
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