Two Snellville men are facing charges for shooting and beating a man who tried to enter their home — which he previously lived in — by mistake on Thursday while he was experiencing a medical incident.
Snellville police said Terrell Downie tried to enter the home on the 2500 block of Lake Commons Court, near Rockdale Circle, at about 8:37 a.m., but they added he was not trying to force his way into the home.
The men who currently live at the home, Frederick Sherman and Eugene Days, chased Downie from the home. Sherman allegedly shot Downie in the leg and Days allegedly got into a physical altercation with him, according to police. “People inside a home thought someone was trying to make entry into their home,” Snellville Police said on their Facebook page. “This is bad and something that deserves immediate attention. Protection of yourself and a call to the police.
“Those people confronted, and chased the man from the house, and out of the neighborhood. A person shot him and another beat him. This is not even close to being lawful.”
On Thursday, Snellville police said in a statement that they were investigating allegations that Downie was trying to break into the home and commit a burglary. They later said on Facebook that it did not appear he was trying to break into the home and no charges were expected to be filed against him.
Police implied he was trying to enter the home by mistake.
A Snellville police lieutenant who responded to a call about the incident saw Days “beating” Downie when he arrived, according to the police department’s statement on Facebook. The lieutenant separated the two men and applied a tourniquet to Downie’s leg to stop his bleeding.
Downie was taken to a hospital where he was treated for his injuries and then released.
Sherman has been charged with aggravated assault and felon in possession of a firearm while Days is facing a misdemeanor battery charge. Both men were arrested and taken to jail on Thursday.
Sherman was still being held in the Gwinnett County jail on Friday, but Days was released on bond on Thursday.
A Gwinnett County Public Schools bus driver was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries after their bus was hit head-on by a pickup truck on Hamilton Mill Road on Friday.
The accident happened early Friday morning on Hamilton Mill at Bart Johnson Road, prompting law enforcement to close the road for several hours as officers investigated what happened. Police said no children were on the bus when the accident occurred.
A photo that Gwinnett police released showed severe damage to the front ends of both the bus and the pickup truck.
Gwinnett County Public Schools spokesman Bernard Watson said the bus driver was alert when they were taken to the hospital, and that their injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.
The condition of the pickup truck’s driver was not immediately available on Friday afternoon.
After three days of voting for other Republicans in the U.S. House speaker voting, U.S. Representative Andrew Clyde flipped his support to U.S. Representative Kevin McCarthy in the 12th round of voting on Friday.
Clyde, whose district includes northern Gwinnett, had been one of the 20 Republican members of Congress who have been backing GOP challengers to McCarthy’s bid to become Speaker of the House.
Clyde had been the only GOP member of Georgia’s congressional delegation who was not backing McCarthy in the speaker race. Democrats in the delegation had repeatedly backed U.S. Representative Hakeem Jeffries in round after round of voting. The stalemate created a major problem for the House. Congress couldn’t conduct any other business, including swearing in its members and setting rules for the chamber, until a speaker is chosen, leaving the chamber unable to function.
This is the first time in a century that a vote on selecting a speaker has gone to multiple ballots.
After tense discussions and a near physical altercation between two congressmen, Speaker McCarthy finally received t majority of the votes late Friday night, just before the clock struck midnight. The members of Congress were eventually sworn in in the early morning hours on Saturday after McCarthy officially became speaker.
It typically takes time for first-year high schools to experience athletic success, but one Seckinger team is ahead of the curve.
The Jaguars’ boys basketball team is off to a 12-4 start in its inaugural season, and it enjoyed a major milestone Sunday with its first state ranking, appearing at Number 9 in Class AAAA in the Sandy’s Spiel poll. Seckinger won its opener 61-54 over Chamblee on the way to a 3-0 start to the season, and is 5-1 in Region 8-AAAA play under Hamilton, a Brookwood grad who was previously a Gwinnett assistant for eight of his nine years in coaching. He spent the 2021-22 season at Lambert after two years as community coach at Brookwood, two years at Archer and four years at Buford, where he worked under legendary coach Eddie Martin and won the 2019 state title.
Martin’s son, Brent, is a key member of Hamilton’s first staff at Seckinger alongside fellow assistants Jaylen Clement and Craig Begalle. That staff and a young, talented group of players have picked up wins while drumming up excitement among the faculty and students at a brand-new high school.
That success, surprising to many outside the program, has picked up even more steam of late. The Jaguars have won six of their past seven and three in a row, opening up 2023 on Friday with a 62-52 win over Chestatee after going 2-1 after Christmas — losing 65-63 to a talented Monroe Area team before defeating Brookland-Cayce from South Carolina 70-53 and Monsignor Donovan Catholic 93-61.
North Gwinnett’s wrestling team broke a long drought with a first-place finish in Saturday’s Region 7-AAAAAAA Duals at Duluth.
North defeated Norcross 54-27 in the finals after beating Meadowcreek 78-6 in the semifinals. It the first wrestling region or area championship for North since 1995. Nicolas Owens, Mason Urie, Logan Weaver, Conner Weaver, Aiden Villarreal, Nathan Choi, Ronan Sherwood, and Kenneth Tinoco each went 2-0 for the Bulldogs.
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