Tag: shooting
Did Anthony Hill have to die?
When DeKalb County officer Robert Olsen shot and killed an unarmed man, Anthony Hill, in March 2015, it brought up many questions about how police handle people with mental illness. This is the anatomy of a police shooting.
We’ll know next week whether Tex McIver will accept a plea bargain
If no plea deal is reached, Tex McIver’s trial is slated to begin October 30. In court today, chief prosecutor Clint Rucker also argued that a 1990 incident in which McIver set loose his two German Shepherds on a red Mustang near his house on Cravey Trail in northeast Atlanta, then fired his gun at the car, would be relevant for a jury to hear.
A suspected robber shot a man outside JCT Kitchen—Updated
One man is recovering at Grady Memorial Hospital after he was shot outside JCT Kitchen, Ford Fry's popular restaurant and bar in the Westside Provisions District just before 9 p.m. last night.
How it feels to shoot an intruder
A gunshot rang out the morning of December 31 last year, and it’s been echoing in Eugene Thomas’s mind ever since. Thomas and his fiancee live on a cul-de-sac in a sleepy neighborhood. Police and firefighters have honored the couple for their volunteer work with neighborhood youth.
How it feels to survive a shooting
On a hot day in 2008, on a street of middle-class homes in
Gwinnett County, Bryan Ryser was putting his lawn mower
away when his neighbor, Charles Quinn, shot him in the back.
Everyone is in awe of Antoinette Tuff
The Twitterverse adores her bravery, and rightly so.
Flashback: Larry Flynt shot in Lawrenceville
On that warm March afternoon, what pastor Fred Musser first thought was the sound of freight palettes dropping from a truck turned out to be the crack of a .44 caliber Marlin rifle—a weapon designed to kill large game.
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