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Georgia Bureau of Investigations is looking into what caused the Trooper shooting, while Atlanta Police investigate two other shootings. (Shutterstock)
ATLANTA Three Atlanta shootings from over the weekend remain under investigation after seven people were injured.
Gunplay came from an officer-involved shooting, a drive-by shooting and an apparent shooting into a home, police said.
In the first of the incidents from Saturday afternoon, an off-duty Georgia State Trooper shot and wounded a man near Grant Park. Around 4:30 p.m., Atlanta Police were called to respond to reports of gunfire at 448 Boulevard. The man was taken to the hospital and the case was taken over by the Georgia Bureau of Investigations.
A Georgia sheriff’s deputy who had been on the job for about two decades died Monday after being shot during a wild police chase over the weekend, authorities said. Lt. Justin Bedwell, of the Decatur County Sheriff’s Office, succumbed to his injuries after being hospitalized in critical condition Saturday night following the high-speed pursuit near the southwest border with Florida.
GBI investigating incident involving former McIntosh Co. Sherriffâs deputy
GBI investigating incident involving former McIntosh Co. Sherriffâs deputy By WTOC Staff | February 28, 2021 at 10:54 AM EST - Updated February 28 at 9:01 PM
MCINTOSH COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) - The Georgia Bureau of Investigations is investigating an incident involving a former McIntosh County Sheriffâs deputy.
According to a release from the McIntosh County Sheriffâs Office, deputies responded to a disturbance call in a parking lot in North Darien around 5:30 p.m. on February 22. When they arrived on scene, deputies encountered a female causing a disturbance in the parking lot area of a store and attempted to arrest her for Public Intoxication.
Family of Georgia Teen Who Died After Basketball Drills Sues School Officials
Imani Bell, 16, collapsed while running up stadium steps in “extreme heat,” according to a complaint filed on Wednesday.
“Basketball was one of her loves,” Imani Bell’s father said of his daughter, who died after running drills with her school basketball team in 2019.
Feb. 24, 2021
The family of a Georgia teenager who died after participating in outdoor basketball practice two years ago has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against several school officials, including the athletic director and principal.
The teenager, Imani Bell, was a junior at the Elite Scholars Academy, a public school in Jonesboro, Ga., in August 2019 when she was running up the football stadium steps during a drill in “extreme heat” and collapsed, according to the lawsuit, filed on Wednesday by her parents, Dorian and Eric Bell.
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Ahmaud Arbery was killed at 25. A year later, Black men who see themselves in him mourn his loss
We talked to Black men his age about his life, and how they are making the most of the years he never had.
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Ahmaud Arbery is pictured here with his mother Wanda Cooper-Jones.
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The house on Boykin Ridge Drive hasn’t had a soul in it since February 23, 2020.
It was the place where Wanda Cooper-Jones raised her three children, Marcus, Jasmine and Ahmaud, and celebrated milestones: high school graduations, birthdays and the overall wholeness of family.