Diamond Johnson shooting death: $5,000 reward for tips leading to arrest, indictment
By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team
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Crime Stoppers Atlanta released a photo of Diamond Johnson, left, who was shot during a shooting on May 1, 2021. Police are searching for 3 vehicles that were nearby, left, during that time.
ATLANTA - A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and indictment of the shooter involved in a deadly shooting across the street from Maynard Jackson High School on Saturday evening. Atlanta police have released photos of three vehicles that were in the area when a 15-year-old girl was gunned down. Two other teens were injured in that shooting.
Authorities in Atlanta have launched a manhunt for escaped inmate Devonte Detuan Ross
Two deputies transporting Ross stopped at a QuikTrip gas station to get food
While at the gas station, Ross jumped out of the vehicle and fled while cuffed in the front with waist chains
One day earlier, Jsaan Carlos Strover, 20, escaped custody after he pushed two Maricopa County deputies at a rental car facility
Strover was arrested after midnight Friday when reporters from a local TV station spotted him hiding in the bushes while reporting on his escape
Arizona murder suspect back in custody after day-long search near Atlanta airport
By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team
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A multi-jurisdictional manhunt is underway for a suspect who escaped custody at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
COLLEGE PARK, Ga. - Authorities said the murder suspect from Arizona who escaped from deputies near the Atlanta airport and was the subject of a day-long, multi-jurisdictional manhunt is back in custody.
J saan Carlos Strover, 20, was being transported by investigators with the Maricopa County Sheriff s Office back to Phoenix Arizona to face multiple charges including murder on Thursday morning, according to the Fulton County Sheriff s Office. The Phoenix-area deputies had just returned their rental car at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and were about to board the tram from the car rental facility to the airport terminal with Strover when he took off running into a wooded area, Atlanta-area officials said.
Polar Rock Terrace shooting: 1 dead, 5 wounded, police say
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Multiple people found shot along Polar Rock Terrace in southwest Atlanta.
ATLANTA - One person is dead and at least four other people were injured after a shooting at a southwest Atlanta home on Thursday evening in what police are describing as a drive-by shooting.
Officers were dispatched to the home located in the 2300 block of Polar Rock Terrace SW around 9:38 p.m. Atlanta police said officers found several people suffering from gunshot wounds at the location.
One man was dead at the scene, police said. The other victims were taken to an area hospital for treatment. Their conditions were not immediately known.