Gwinnett County police are investigating a shooting that occurred in unincorporated Stone Mountain, leaving one man dead and another injured. The injured man entered Grady Hospital in Atlanta with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound and claimed to have been involved in a shooting at a home on Mountain Drive. Police responded to the home and found a dead man inside. Detectives are currently investigating the incident and trying to locate any witnesses who may have seen or heard the shooting. The motive and identity of the deceased male are currently unknown.
Gwinnett County police are looking for suspects who are accused of trying to steal a catalytic converter from a car in a neighborhood near Duluth last month. Master Police Officer Hideshi Valle said a surveillance camera at the Walmart on Jimmy Carter Boulevard recorded two men purchasing tools on March 2. Two people matching the description of the men at Walmart were then seen with at least two other suspects a few hours later, shortly after midnight, trying to steal a catalytic converter from a 2014 BMW 435i on Saint Andrews Drive. The BMW's owner heard loud drilling noises outside his window and saw three people with tools around his vehicle, according to the police report. A white sedan that was running was next to the BMW as well.The owner grabbed his handgun and fired at least 10 through a window at the suspects. The vehicle began to pull away from the house and two of the suspects who had allegedly been trying to steal the catalytic converter ran after it and got inside it. The third suspect ran toward another house in the neighborhood. The suspects recorded buying tools at Walmart are described as Black men in their early 20s. One of them has a tattoo of a partial clock on the top of his left hand, and was wearing a black hoodie, shorts, socks and sliders on the day the theft occurred. The other suspect has tattoos on his right hand, and was wearing a blue zip-up hoodie, green sweatpants, gray socks and green Nike slides.
Gwinnett County police are looking for a man who stole a leaf blower from a Home Depot in the Hamilton Mill area last week.
Master Police Officer Hideshi Valle said the man is accused of walking in to the store, which is located at 2120 Hamilton Creek Parkway, on April 20 and put a RYOBI 18V HP Brushless Blower in a shopping cart and then leaving the store with the device without paying for it.
Police said the leaf blower is worth $159.
A police report states the man allegedly put the leaf blower in a dark blue passenger car before driving away in the vehicle. The report lists the vehicle as possibly being a Nissan, but the model was unknown. The suspect is described as an older White man with a colored tattoo on his left forearm, and who was wearing dark pants, a blue shirt that had the word "DIAMOND" printed on the front, and a brown or camouflage baseball cap at the time of the theft.
Officials at the Gwinnett Medical Examiner's Office and private DNA testing laboratory, Othram Inc., are hoping genealogical testing will help them find answers regarding two sets of children’s bones that were found in Gwinnett around 25 years ago. The bones were found in boxes at the intersection of Buford Highway and Weaver Way in February 1998. There is no complete set of bones for either child, one of whom is believed to have been an infant and the other is believed to be a teenager. The bones were exhumed legally, according to the letter found with the bones, from somewhere in south Georgia, but where is unknown. Speculation is that the bones were meant to end up somewhere else but fell from a vehicle when driving through Gwinnett. Officials also believe that the children died somewhere between 1900 and 1940 because the bones were found with burial tools from that era. Othram is purpose built to identify either victims or perpetrators in cases with no other leads. Currently Othram is trying to raise money to cover the cost of the testing.
Buford racked up a season-high 15 hits Monday for a 10-1 victory over Peachtree Ridge in decisive Game 3 of their first-round series in the Class AAAAAAA state baseball playoffs.
Ethan Murray, Brandon Taliaferro, Madden Young and Ayden Lockett led the Wolves’ hitters. Murray’s home run was his sixth of the season.
The output was more than enough for winning pitcher Nate Taylor, who struck out eight and walked one over 6 2/3 innings in a three-hitter. The Wolves advance to host Walton in the second round on April 28 and 29.
Wesleyan rallied for an 8-7 victory in walkoff fashion in Game 1, then got a dominant pitching performance from Dominick Scalese in the nightcap for a 3-0 win and a sweep of Hebron Christian in the first round of the Class AAA state baseball playoffs Monday.
Scalese struck out 11 in a complete-game, two-hitter in Game 2 to finish off the sweep. Schley Gordy and Forrest Lietz had two hits each in the opener as the Wolves advanced to a second-round matchup at Ringgold on April 29 and May 1.
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