Posted: 10:43 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009
Girls Injured In Drive-By; Con Artists Use Fulton County's Name; Man Arrested At Home For Indecent Exposure
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By Veronica Waters
- Eleven shell casings, zero motive. That's what Clayton County Police have so far investigating a Tuesday drive-by shooting that sent three girls, ages 14 to 16, to the hospital with gunshot wounds. They were talking to a group of boys on Plover Road when an SUV pulled up and someone started shooting at them. All of them are expected to survive. A witness to the shooting told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution the suspects were in a red, green and primer gray Chevrolet Blazer.
- An interracial couple sues a Louisiana justice of the peace because he refused to marry them. They claim Keith Bardwell violated their civil rights, but he explains that he's seen many biracial kids rejected by their extended family and he doesn't want to help that happen; plus, he says those types of marriages don't last as long. He's resisting calls for his resignation, arguing--he didn't stop them from getting married, he just wouldn't do it.
- Nashville Police are releasing the text messages between Steve McNair and his girlfriend from the hours before they died. The day before she carried out the murder-suicide, Sahel Kazemi texted McNair that she thought she was having a breakdown, and that she needed $2,000 to pay her bills. He wired the money to her. The next day, they met at the condo--and she shot them both.
- Scam alert: FYI, the Fulton County Board of Commissioners is not paying you to be a secret shopper. So beware of the letter you get with that invitation from something called "Fulton Marketing Logistics," with the $3,800 check inside. They'll ask you to deposit that check and wire them part of the money. By the time the check bounces, you're on the hook for the whole amount.
- A former PhD student at Georgia State, and the director of GSU's Middle East Institute, sue over alleged anti-Muslim bias and harassment. The student says one professor asked her if she carries any bombs under her Muslim dress or head scarf. When the Institute director helped her file a grievance, both women claim the school retaliated against them.
- Nearly 15 years after he murdered the manager of an Augusta Domino's for a little more than $100 dollars, Mark Howard McClain was executed Tuesday night at the state prison in Jackson. McClain did not request a last meal or make a final statement. It was Georgia's third execution this year.
- Gentlemen, heading to the kitchen to brew a pot of morning coffee? Better put on your robe first. A 29-year-old Virginia man is charged with indecent exposure after a woman walking by his house spotted him naked in his own kitchen. She had her seven-year-old son with her, and called the cops--who arrested Eric Williamson because they say he wanted to be seen. Williamson, a dad himself, denies that. He says he had just gotten out of bed, it was dark out, and he didn't know anyone could see him.
- How much do you love your pet? 63% of dog owners and 53% of cat owners in an AP-Petside poll say they would perform mouth-to-muzzle resuscitation if their pets needed it. A California woman actually saved the life of her friend's dog that way back in August when the Chihuahua got choked by a leash; she had no training, but imitated what she'd seen on TV shows. She described the dog's mouth as "horrible," but everyone at the party called her a hero.
- We've now found out the motive in a September shooting at a house in DeKalb County which left three people dead, including a three-year-old girl. Turns out the gunfire was prompted by an argument--over a game of dominoes. The folks in the Monterey Drive house asked a yelling, cussing 24-year-old Ronald Clemons to leave; police say he returned with an assault rifle, and opened fire.
- It looked like a routine traffic stop, but ended with hundreds of pounds of pot. 43-year-old Roberto Huff of College Park was pulled over for following too closely Monday on I-75 in Stockbridge--police say Huff was going about 70 mph and just five feet behind the car in front of him. A police dog on the scene picked up the scent of the drugs and alerted officers, and a search turned up 18 twenty-pound packs of marijuana.
- The KISS 104.1 weather forecast: beautiful and sunny with a high around 72.
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