Shootings and Violent Crime

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (331+ words) A person was shot and killed Friday at an apartment complex in Atlanta's Collier Heights neighborhood, police said. The shooting happened at 2798 Peek Road NW, according to Atlanta police. As reported by Atlanta News First, the story was developing. The…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (461+ words) Suspects held a man at gunpoint on Cooper Street SW on September 7, restraining him before taking $40 in cash and an iPhone 17 and running from the scene, according to police. Atlanta Police are now asking the public for help identifying the…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (213+ words) Earlier in the case, 11Alive reported on a forensic facial reconstruction. More recent DNA results provide a specific ancestry finding and an estimated age of six to seven years old. The sheriff's office has assigned Investigator L. Smith to field public tips…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (366+ words) According to Fox 5 Atlanta, officers were called to the Legacy at West Cobb apartments on Favor Road around 8:36 p.m. on September 3, where they found the toddler unresponsive and began rendering aid. The boy was taken to Kennestone Hospital, where he was…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (160+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta Two people are in custody, and police are actively searching for a third after shots were fired inside Piedmont Park on Wednesday afternoon. Officers were at the park within two minutes after receiving calls of…...

5+ day, 6+ min ago   (19+ words) An incident report obtained by Forsyth County News details what 85-year-old Thomas Field told deputies after his wife's death....

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (323+ words) Convicted killer Stacey Humphreys is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 16. According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, Humphreys will be put to death at 7 p.m. that night at the Georgia Diagnostic and classification Prison. But before he receives the lethal…...

5+ day, 40+ min ago   (351+ words) A man visiting a woman in Augusta narrowly escaped being shot early Wednesday morning, fleeing his attacker on the 1600 block of Gordon Highway and calling police himself to report the assault. The gunman remains unidentified, and no arrests have been…...

5+ day, 40+ min ago   (390+ words) According to WSB-TV, a neighbor heard the gunshots and called 911, but told police they did not see anything. Police continue to investigate, while Williams has taken her son's story directly to reporters rather than waiting on the case to develop…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (212+ words) The Jefferson County Coroner/Medical Examiner's Office is now conducting a forensic autopsy to determine the official cause and manner of death, a process that has not yet concluded, per Law and Crime. Whether the victim's death resulted from drowning,…...