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Morrow Supermarket Killer Convicted — Victim Was Eating Lunch When Shot 5 Times
2250 Lake Harbin Rd. — Reported Site Where Officers Found Barber. A Clayton County jury convicted Albert Charles Wright of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and two firearm charges on Oct. 30, more than two years after prosecutors say he gunned down an unarmed man eating lunch in a Morrow supermarket parking lot. Fernando Barber, 42, was shot five times and left in the middle of the lot, where officers found him unresponsive in the early morning hours of Aug. 25, 2023.
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Tucker Motel Shooter Gets Life After Killing Woman Who Called 911 Day Before
A DeKalb County jury found 38-year-old Antonio Robert Watson guilty of malice murder, felony murder, home invasion, aggravated assault and gun charges in the shooting death of 30-year-old Shalileha Alford, a woman he was dating. A judge immediately sentenced Watson to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus an extra 20 years. The shooting happened the morning of April 15, 2025, at the Studio 6 motel on Crescent Centre Boulevard in Tucker.
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The Spun
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Man, Child Shot at Southwest Atlanta Complex With Long History of Gunfire
A man and a child were shot near 1371 Kimberly Way SW at the Ashley Cascade apartment complex in southwest Atlanta, according to police. Both victims were alert, conscious and breathing as they were rushed to a hospital, and officers have not identified them or named any suspects. Atlanta police...
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'We were all farmers' —Thomas Ewing, 96, remembers Snellville’s rural roots
Of the rolling fields and orchards of Thomas Ewing’s boyhood, memories remain. “I can go down the road and name you the farmers, from the church on down the road, and right up the road, the ones that was farming during that time,” Ewing says. “We were all farmers.” It was 1930. The previous year the stock market had crashed, and Americans were losing faith in their banks, in their president, in the possibilities of their country. In the midst of the tumult Ewing was born in a four-room farmhouse his grandfather built on Webb Gin House Road. Briefly, the family moved to Atlanta to try a different life. They were driven back by the worsening depression, and remained on the family farm another two and a half decades. Ewing himself would not stay even that long. He enlisted, and at 20 he left Gwinnett. Never again would he pick cotton, or plow a field. By the time he returned home to Snellville, 46 years later, everything had changed. A country crossroad had grown to a metro suburb. Ewing had traveled the world, and become director of his division. But for the son of a farmer raised in his father’s
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The Enchanting 30-Acre Garden In Georgia That’s Pulled Straight From A Storybook
Atlanta has a lot going for it, but the Atlanta Botanical Garden might just be its most quietly spectacular secret, a living work of art that most people drive right past on their way to somewhere less interesting. If you’ve been spending your weekends scrolling through travel feeds and sighing...