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Posted: 12:36 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011

Teen's Teeth Broken in Salon Brawl; FAMU Drum Major Hazed to Death?; Danger on the Toy Shelf 

Ashley Corbett
Channel 2 Action News
Ashley Corbett, 17, tells Channel 2 Action News she was an innocent bystander who wound up in the emergency room after a brawl at the nail salon.

By Veronica Waters

A teen has her teeth knocked out in a nail salon fight in Snellville. After one customer spent the better part of a half-hour berating the staff at Regal Nails about their high prices, one of her children clashed with the child of another customer, "and from there, it was off the chain," says a woman named Karetha, who videotaped the melee with her cell phone. Seventeen-year-old Ashley Corbett, an innocent bystander customer, got hit in the face with a porcelain bowl. Her chin was sliced and front teeth broken. Cops are looking for the hot-tempered perpetrator.

“I didn't deserve it. It just happened to me,” Corbett tells Channel 2 Action News. “This is how we're going to have to spend our Thanksgiving, with me healing.”


Atlanta Police hope surveillance video will help them find two men who tried to rob a midtown restaurant Tuesday night. The gunmen burst into the Subway on Piedmont Road around 8:30, pointed a gun at one of the two employees, and demanded money. As the pair ran for the back of the sandwich shop, the crook opened fire and one of the workers was hit in the buttocks. They ran next door to Fat Matt's Rib Shack, where a doctor standing in line helped bandage up the injured man. The would-be thief left without getting any cash.

Smartphone snatchers appear to be ramping up their crimes. Two women were held at gunpoint in Buckhead so a man could steal an iPhone from one of them. Police say crooks often target iPhones because of high resale potential.

Was the death of a Florida A&M University Marching 100 drum major due to hazing? The school president has canceled all practices and performances of the band, which has a history of hazing, until investigators find out more about how 26-year-old Robert Champion died. Champion, who graduated from Southwest DeKalb, vomited and complained of not being able to breathe before his collapse Saturday following the Florida Classic against Bethune-Cookman College in Orlando. The Orange County sheriff says investigators concluded "hazing was involved in the events that occurred prior to the 911 call for assistance." A preliminary autopsy was inconclusive.

Stocking stuffers for your kids may be a danger come Christmas. The U. S. Public Interest Research Group found just over a dozen toys now on store shelves that violate federal safety standards, from lead or chemical content to choke hazards to noise. The full "Trouble in Toyland" report can be seen at http://www.uspirg.org/issues/toy-safety.

What's wrong with turning five bucks into a hundred? When it's a felony. 25-year-old Vincent Rome of Atlanta has pleaded guilty in federal court to creating $1.2 million in bogus cash. When agents raided his home last August, they found his operation. He'd bleach $5 bills in commercial solvent, run them through printing presses to stamp hundred-dollar denominations on them, and sell the fake money throughout the Southeast.

Be careful not to get any fake green this Black Friday. Sandy Springs Police warn that as usual during busy retail times, counterfeit cash is starting to show up more frequently as the holidays approach. And it's not limited to stores, either. A Marietta man told police that he sold a pair of Atlanta Falcons tickets to a scalper outside the Georgia Dome last week, and then when he tried to use the bills at a restaurant, he found out they were fake.

Brace yourself, Black Friday shoppers: two of metro Atlanta's malls are listed among the top 10 most-traffic-congested in the country. Lenox and the Mall of Georgia in Buford, ranked sixth and 10th on the TomTom top 10 list of U.S. shopping centers with the greatest slowdowns in average traffic speeds on that day. The GPS maker lists Southpark Mall in Charlotte as the one most clogged by traffic.

Gov. Nathan Deal and Mayor Kasim Reed have left a lasting thank-you to the nation's troops passing through the world's busiest airport. Deal and Reed unveiled two banners bearing their names and reading "Welcome Our Troops Home" at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Tuesday.

The KISS 104 weather forecast: breezy, high of 63; lows tonight, 36-41. Thanksgiving Thursday, sunshine and a high of 66, lows in the 33-41. Friday, sunny high 66, low 36.

Veronica Waters

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Veronica Waters is the morning news anchor on KISS 104.1 and B-98.5FM. She is also an anchor and reporter for 95.

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