Coalition pushes licenses for unauthorized immigrants in Georgia

Currently pending before the House Committee on Motor Vehicles, HB 833 faces an uphill climb in the Republican-controlled Legislature, even as surging Hispanic and Asian populations in the state could add to the bill’s relevancy.

Granting driving credentials to people who don’t reside in the country legally means that “you’re essentially giving legitimacy to something that is already illegitimate … it is an inherent contradiction,” said Marci McCarthy, who leads the DeKalb County Republican Party.

Former state Rep. Jeff Jones, who served as vice chairman of the Motor Vehicles Committee from 2019 to 2020, said the bill is “so preposterous” that he assumed it was a “campaign ploy.”

“I predict a very negative reaction from Georgians when they learn that (HB 833) aims to document the undocumented,” Jones R-Brunswick, said in an email to the AJC.

In other states, GOP opposition to similar bills has hinged partly on concerns that making unauthorized immigrants eligible for driver’s licenses could lead to fraudulent attempts to vote in elections. That’s likely to be a sticking point in Georgia as well, where Republican lawmakers recently pushed through an expansive new election law that includes some restrictions on voting.

“I think (HB 833) is going to be dead on arrival,” McCarthy said. “I wish the Democrats would put this much effort into voter ID overall in Georgia.”

Possible benefits of expansion

Despite the opposition, advocates say expanded access to driver’s licenses is needed due to the lack of viable public transit alternatives in vast swaths of the state.

“In a place like Georgia, not being able to drive is not being able to eat,” said Kavi Vu, spokeswoman for the Asian American Advocacy Fund, one of the groups advocating for the adoption of HB 833.

Though unauthorized immigrants would be among those most directly impacted by HB 833, other marginalized groups with limited access to identification documents — including survivors of domestic violence, homeless people and formerly incarcerated individuals — could benefit as well, advocates say.

The legislation could also yield public safety benefits and would allow for better access to health care, including vaccinations against COVID-19, supporters say.

A report published this year by the left-leaning Georgia Budget and Policy Institute found that expanding access to driver’s licenses could have a positive impact on road safety and generate new revenue for state coffers from vehicle registrations, licensing fees, and motor fuel taxes.

“As far as people who drive automobiles on the road, you want them to know what the rules of the road are, and you want them to be able to go through the process of becoming credentialed to drive,” David Schaefer, research director at the institute, said. “We think that (HB 833) really facilitates that.”

According to a report from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 1 in 5 fatal car crashes involve an unlicensed or invalidly licensed driver. Those drivers are also 10 times more likely to leave the scene of an accident than validly licensed drivers. And per GBPI, giving all immigrant drivers the opportunity to become licensed would mean more of those drivers would take out car insurance than is currently the case. That could lower premiums for everyone else.

In California, after over 1 million undocumented immigrants were able to apply for driver’s licenses, hit-and-runs were reduced by 10%, according to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Similar policy changes in Connecticut contributed to hit-and-runs in certain cities there declining by 15%, according to official data — leading to millions of dollars saved in related expenses.

GBPI estimates that, within the first three years of implementation, about 40% of the state’s 400,000 unauthorized immigrants would seek a license — that’s nearly 165,000 people.

Immigration advocates say licenses would also represent a boon for mental health.

“A lot of our community would want nothing more than to be able to drive with peace of mind, without that stress of having to every morning leave their house to go to work and not knowing if they are going to be stopped and and referred to ICE,” said Vanesa Sarazua, founder of the Gainesville-based Hispanic Alliance GA. “The emotional turmoil that we have is real … And it’s an impact in our community that is seldom spoken about.”

Some hesitancy on both sides

Garnering support for the legislation will be challenging.

Some states, like Maryland, that allowed unauthorized immigrants to obtain a legal ID found that hundreds of licenses were issued to applicants who submitted counterfeit documentation. In 2006, Tennessee ended its licensing program for unauthorized immigrants, after federal investigations showed that some applicants used fraudulent documents, and in some cases also bribed state workers, to secure driving privileges.

In other parts of the country, some states’ expanded driver’s license programs were used by immigration enforcement authorities to obtain participating immigrants’ personal information, leading to arrests and deportations.

To get the support of the immigrant community, sponsors of the Georgia bill have included language that would prevent routine information sharing with ICE, stipulating that a federal court order would need to be produced for any data to be released.

Schaefer says that provision would be key in not only protecting private information, but also in getting members of the unauthorized community to sign up for licenses in the first place.

“If you are going to encourage people to apply, they have to know that their information will not be used against them,” he said.

Lautaro Grinspan is a Report for America corps member covering metro Atlanta’s immigrant communities.

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In 2006, Tennessee ended its licensing program for unauthorized immigrants, after federal investigations showed that some applicants used fraudulent documents, and in some cases also bribed state workers, to secure driving privileges.”},{“_id”:”TGHUJLGRPBG7LOOWZ7FHY2L4HY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1625259099801},”type”:”text”,”content”:”In other parts of the country, some states’ expanded driver’s license programs were used by immigration enforcement authorities to obtain participating immigrants’ personal information, leading to arrests and deportations.”},{“_id”:”PN2FDDCGMBCCFFJTC2MKUOIYI4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629296660479},”type”:”text”,”content”:”To get the support of the immigrant community, sponsors of the Georgia bill have included language that would prevent routine information sharing with ICE, stipulating that a federal court order would need to be produced for any data to be released.”},{“_id”:”DYRPGJHM7RBELHQBRBTAVXGEVE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1625259099806},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Schaefer says that provision would be key in not only protecting private information, but also in getting members of the unauthorized community to sign up for licenses in the first place.”},{“_id”:”XCXELVDJXNCHVHS5TLAU3LB66Q”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1625259099807},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“If you are going to encourage people to apply, they have to know that their information will not be used against them,” he said.”},{“_id”:”CMPUVKTUAJEB5OME6CVKDQ26PU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:”TKSM6MPBUNGN7D7LMRL3MQ3FCI”},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Lautaro Grinspan is a Report for America corps member covering metro Atlanta’s immigrant communities.”}],”display_date”:”2021-08-23T14:00:00Z”,”headlines”:{“basic”:”Coalition pushes licenses for unauthorized immigrants in Georgia”},”first_publish_date”:”2021-08-23T14:00:01.848Z”,”taxonomy”:{“sections”:[{“path”:”/news”,”parent”:{“default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”_website”:”ajc”,”parent_id”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”name”:”News”,”description”:”Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles – Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”_id”:”/news”,”additional_properties”:{“original”:{“parent”:{“AmpNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”BottomNav”:null,”TopNavRedesign”:null,”SectionMap”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”LoggedOutMenu”:null,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”TopNav”:null,”TopicsBar”:null,”ComposerNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”site”:{“site_url”:”https://www.ajc.com/news/”,”section_comments_enabled”:”Yes”,”site_description”:”Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles – Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”site_title”:”Atlanta GA News | Top News Page”},”navigation”:{“nav_title”:”News”},”inactive”:false,”node_type”:”section”,”_website”:”ajc”,”name”:”News”,”Sponsor”:{“sponsor_url_open_new_tab”:”true”,”sponsor_desktop_banner”:””,”sponsor_mobile_banner”:””,”sponsor_url”:””},”_id”:”/news”,”ancestors”:{“AmpNav”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”default”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”BottomNav”:[],”TopNavRedesign”:[],”SectionMap”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”LoggedOutMenu”:[],”MainMenuRedesign2021″:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”TopicsBar”:[]},”order”:{“AmpNav”:1001,”default”:1001,”SectionMap”:1018,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:1001,”ComposerNav”:1135}}},”_website_section_id”:”ajc./news”,”type”:”section”,”version”:”0.6.0″}],”primary_section”:{“path”:”/news”,”name”:”News”},”tags”:[{“text”:”teamjanel”},{“text”:”reportforamerica”},{“text”:”immigrantcommunities”},{“text”:”georgia-news.ajc”}]},”type”:”story”,”last_updated_date”:”2021-08-23T14:00:01.842Z”,”canonical_url”:”/news/coalition-pushes-licenses-for-unauthorized-immigrants-in-georgia/SYWL7U2CPRAQTAPCOSVKSL6FOU/”,”promo_items”:{“basic”:{“credits”:{“affiliation”:[]},”subtitle”:”Advocates seek expansion to Georgia driver’s license program”,”width”:490,”caption”:”House Bill 833 would give Georgia undocumented immigrants the opportunity to apply for a new kind of driver’s license. 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The city did not eclipse 100 homicides until October last year.”},{“_id”:”D2ZBFZUKD5DSDHSMJCEHBH3VZE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629656470599},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Late Friday, a brother and sister were found dead in a vehicle in southwest Atlanta and another man died at a hospital after being discovered with a gunshot wound in a car on Magnolia Way on Saturday in northwest Atlanta.”},{“_id”:”AW5LEUGBMJDRFPSPAFSBCHZNFU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629653035222},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The man on Magnolia Way was found just before 4 p.m., police said in a statement. He was rushed to a hospital in critical condition before succumbing to his injuries, marking the 100th investigation into a homicide that police have opened this year.”},{“_id”:”43KOUD3IOJE5JPZOBXFOTAGZPA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629665149378},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The triple homicide at McDaniel and Whitehall streets happened about nine hours later.”},{“_id”:”5RQBJOLPFRC7XD7VFFDIFSAPC4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629653035223},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Surpassing 100 homicides is a grim milestone that reflects an increase in violent crime that Atlanta police and city leaders have been combatting for more than a year.”},{“_id”:”SPRZ3JMXDZEWZFA7XA66X7GDF4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629653035224},”type”:”text”,”content”:”In 2020, the Atlanta Police Department investigated 157 homicides, up from 99 in 2019. By June of this year, APD reported nearly a 60% increase in homicide cases. That pace has slowed, but the 2021 homicide count is ahead of last year when the 100th homicide was recorded on Oct. 1, 2020, crime data shows.”},{“_id”:”ZG24LTHWLFAHRHWOHY5CZSOUBY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629665149381},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Candidates call for urgent action”},{“_id”:”Z6XXV44NBNFWZCDVBKL4ULJULE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629656470605},”type”:”text”,”content”:”A spokesman for Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms did not respond to a message seeking comment about the triple homicide.”},{“_id”:”OXT7OA25UZHR7KIGSNPU5TBWPI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629662990352},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Violent crime has emerged as one of the top issues of the mayoral campaign.”},{“_id”:”T6KX3OWHVJFZZJTBX3BSZTXAJM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629662990353},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The major candidates to succeed Bottoms, who is not running for reelection, expressed sorrow for the loved ones of the slain and said urgent action is needed.”},{“_id”:”HOD3EMP5QZAJXAX3LUB2RGGPYE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629662990354},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Several of the candidates said expanding the police force is important, but that issues go far deeper than a shortage of sworn officers.”},{“_id”:”A4AIMZDPVRHGZEJXEQZXTFJTIY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629662990355},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Councilman Antonio Brown said many homicides involve victims and assailants who know one another, and conflict resolution is essential to prevent altercations from escalating into murders.”},{“_id”:”X6NTNRTDUNESPMUCURYFJZEQAU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629662990356},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Brown has proposed a Department of Public Safety and Wellness to respond to non-emergency calls and provide care and services to residents 24 hours a day, a substantial expansion of the city’s current Policing Alternatives & Diversion Initiative (PAD).”},{“_id”:”KJTOGCINHZBSPNO77J6IQWLZFI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629662990357},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Answers are not as simple as hiring hundreds of officers to restore the force to 2,000, Brown said. He said that level of law enforcement staffing did not solve issues facing the city and he would rather see “community policing” that gets officers out of their vehicles and onto the streets where they can learn their communities.”},{“_id”:”ECE66MTFNRH33JG2ZPSUMUSQAA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629662990358},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“Militarizing Atlanta police is not going to solve the problem,” Brown said.”},{“_id”:”KJTOGCINHZBSPNO77J6IQWLZFI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629662990357},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Brown is currently under federal indictment for charges including wire fraud involving alleged acts that occurred prior to his election as a councilman. He has pleaded not guilty.”},{“_id”:”DPQQV6R55VHKVISF5GPDXO4WTU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629662990360},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Councilman Andre Dickens said Atlanta “has reached the sad milestone of 100 homicides far too soon.””},{“_id”:”35OAMVS3CZFH5JJSIUXX6WV2FA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629662990361},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“Human life is too precious to allow this violent crime spike to continue,” he said. “We must adequately support APD, attract more federal resources to stop gangs and guns, and engage all our community partners — business, nonprofits, clergy and (Atlanta Public Schools) — to make Atlanta streets safe.””},{“_id”:”YO3ZBVY4FZAE3FRFJRQESNR5XI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629662990362},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Dickens said his safety plan will use “smart technology and more officers to patrol hot spots throughout the city and present a deterrent to senseless crimes like the ones that are occurring.””},{“_id”:”HF4HBOJ6NFASZE5YKQGJDETPHI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629662990363},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Sharon Gay, a lawyer and former top city official under former Mayor Bill Campbell, said in a statement “we cannot accept the horrendous wave of homicides in our city as a new normal.” She has pledged an enlarged and better-trained police force and a crackdown on code violators, including “unlicensed or improperly licensed bars and music venues.””},{“_id”:”WMOSF7SEMZBTBGV7O26EF64DH4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629662990364},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“The magnitude of the problem requires a response of even greater magnitude,” she said. “Our police, of course, play a key and difficult role in handling and seeking to prevent these homicides while enhancing overall public safety. But attention to the needs of our neighborhoods also must play an important role if we are going to reverse this bloody trend and develop lasting public safety in our city.””},{“_id”:”EVU6ETJ6LJGOTCFUYKCWJC7KUQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629662990365},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Gay pledged to work closely with Gov. Brian Kemp’s office and other regional governments.”},{“_id”:”Q2RV3GQLOBA5LGTM3PNUN7W75U”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629662990366},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“We need to think in broad terms. Crime is often an ugly manifestation of other troubling community issues,” Gay said.”},{“_id”:”VMK4GMQL7ZEVZIU2APFXC3RF6E”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629662990367},”type”:”text”,”content”:”City Council President Felicia Moore said Atlantans are tired and angry about waking up to headlines of more violence. She said there is grieving in every neighborhood.”},{“_id”:”ULGYTCQM7FEE7KXN2463SWH5C4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629662990368},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“I want to make sure we’re looking at this comprehensively,” Moore said. Social services are one piece of the puzzle, but so is the capacity of the court system and jails.”},{“_id”:”W4SF5A27UND4JEUEDBJISINKLE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629662990369},”type”:”text”,”content”:”She said the city needs to work with Fulton County to ensure accused criminals who should remain locked up aren’t released before their court hearings. The city detention center, which Bottoms and allies have sought to convert into a center for equity with community services, could shoulder more of the inmate population.”},{“_id”:”G6FALJSWIBH7RBLPMRA67JNEDU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629662990370},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Moore said the city’s nightclubs are an important industry, but like Gay, Moore said serial violators in the city’s nightlife scene must be addressed.”},{“_id”:”TIDDOV65RBFQJFU3GP7MQ246XE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629662990371},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“Most importantly … we’ve got to set a tone in the city of Atlanta (that) the crime that is happening is not acceptable and we as a community don’t accept it and we don’t accept allowing it to define who we are as a city and we’re going to everything possible to change it,” Moore 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Trigger, 35, was arrested shortly after the incident, which happened in the area of Piedmont Avenue and Ponce de Leon Avenue, Atlanta police said in a statement.”},{“_id”:”DJYTIUZVCBEF7ICL6GJJ66ANZI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629663116752},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Officers met with the victim at the scene about 5 a.m. The woman, who was not named, told officers Trigger had stolen her car and stabbed her, police said.”},{“_id”:”OPKICJ5HKZDQJJ4OL7EWGKVWJI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629663116753},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Bystanders came to the woman’s aid, and Trigger drove off in her car. 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The man, identified as 28-year-old Jonathan Pennington, died at a hospital, becoming the city’s 100th homicide victim of the year. No arrests have been made.”},{“_id”:”MVF4JQB6VRANTCHVJO6IXODBDY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629648057787},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Also Saturday, two other homicides remained under investigation. Two victims from Friday night, a brother and sister, were found shot to death inside a car after police responded to a home on Sells Avenue, authorities said. The siblings were identified Saturday morning as 25-year-old Robert Bankston Jr. and 35-year-old Cedrika Smith.”},{“_id”:”Z5AYEKXEPJBP5CSTGXZOZTPXYM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[]},”type”:”text”,”content”:”A man detained for questioning at the scene was later charged with murder, Atlanta police spokesman Officer Steve Avery said. LaMorris Willie Godfrey, 35, was booked into the Fulton County Jail early Saturday on charges of murder, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, online records show.”},{“_id”:”T6OB3VC5FNCZ3CGPEYRLRK7Y3U”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[]},”type”:”text”,”content”:”It’s unclear how Godfrey knew Bankston and Smith, but investigators said the three were involved in some sort of fight prior to the shooting.”},{“_id”:”5TUPNSE2TVDFVHQLJO6KS7FHAQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629576860599},”type”:”text”,”content”:”At the same time, Atlanta officers were still investigating a deadly shooting Thursday on Greenhaven Drive, though it had not been ruled a homicide late Saturday. Also Saturday, one person was in critical condition following a shooting on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.”},{“_id”:”I4JYBDCGFNGOPDFKY7SFTIJ6DQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629513711066},”type”:”text”,”content”:”In 2020, the Atlanta Police Department investigated 157 homicides, up from 99 in 2019 and the most in more than two decades. By June of this year, APD reported nearly a 60% increase in homicide cases. That pace has slowed, but the 2021 homicide count is still ahead of last year, when the 100th homicide was recorded on Oct. 1, 2020, crime data shows.”},{“_id”:”CYUMET45A5FUPAFV5IHBBKRJBE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629570720516},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Using figures provided by the department, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported that Atlanta had reached the 100-homicide mark Friday night, but a police department spokesman later clarified that number was “mistaken” and the tally stood at 99 homicides investigated in 2021. By Saturday night, the 100th homicide had been recorded. Three of the cases involve incidents from previous years, but the deaths were ruled homicides in 2021.”},{“_id”:”XD72FWAWM5CV7GIDMDMAZM2V74″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629513068051},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Violent crime remains a priority for Atlanta leaders and the police department, and new initiatives are in place to tackle the problem. As the political races for both mayor and City Council seats heat up, violence has also become a part of campaigns.”},{“_id”:”3MEPFZWFFNGPJKUKFGWSMRW6WU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629511996053},”type”:”text”,”content”:”In June, APD Chief Rodney Bryant announced a summer plan to fight crime, which included targeting the hardest-hit areas, addressing gun violence and gangs, and increasing officers’ presence.”},{“_id”:”6BR3CWE2OFDBFPHW6Q3H4F7CRE”,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”KWIZ6DNIIZAAPP6MPN46POR73Y”},”type”:”interstitial_link”,”content”:”Atlanta’s 2021 homicide victims”,”url”:”https://www.ajc.com/news/atlantas-2021-homicide-victims/EVKLI56XNFFXNDOQLDOG6K332U/”},{“_id”:”5KZIXK7IY5EQXNSIBFT3QKGWDA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629511996055},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“We’ve seen an uptick in crime throughout Atlanta and I want to reassure the citizens of Atlanta that we will be vigilant,” Bryant said. “We want to be able to put more police officers out on the street. So we’re adjusting our administrative personnel as well, where they will be deployed out into areas to supplement the day-to-day patrols that you are seeing.””},{“_id”:”BIKOAR4P4ZA45MBQ7MKQCFHQPQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629511996056},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Days later, an increased police presence in the Lenox Square area helped officers quickly locate two teenagers of shooting and critically injuring a security guard, an APD commander said. The department has also used social media to remind citizens that misunderstandings can be resolved without gunfire or other violence.”},{“_id”:”NI4S4PF7CNCHHH4X4XGJWRSODI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629511996057},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Late last week, APD announced more restructuring plans, including adding a mini-precinct in Zone 2, which includes Buckhead, to focus on traffic calls. The move will free up other officers to focus on higher-priority calls and investigations, the department said.”},{“_id”:”ILHSW7P4QRH7BCCAEKKIZ6JTOM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629511996058},”type”:”text”,”content”:”In July, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced her plans to create an office tasked with reducing crime. Bottoms in March announced other plans, which include the hiring of 250 more police officers; expansions to the city’s camera network and license plate reader systems; and the addition of 10,000 more streetlights in the city by Dec. 31, 2022.”},{“owner”:{“id”:”ajc”},”copyright”:”© 2021 Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”address”:{“locality”:”Atlanta”,”region”:”Georgia”},”caption”:”August 20, 2021 Atlanta: A memorial to Katherine Janness has grown on the 10th Street entrance to Piedmont Park as seen on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. 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Up to 335 officers have been involved in use-of-force cases since 2019.”},{“_id”:”WPNQL33XIJFT5ONBNDEEXMYY5E”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629511996063},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Investigators have made arrests or issued warrants in nearly 60 of the 2021 cases, according to police department data. 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Four hours later, her body was found and she had been shot multiple times, according to police. A suspect, DeMarcus Brinkley, was taken into custody the same day after he crashed his SUV in Spalding County while officers attempted to stop him.”},{“_id”:”QHW4IWBO2RAZ7KGCMQZX2SYTEU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629511996068},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Other cases remain unsolved, including the death of 40-year-old Katherine “Katie” Janness, found stabbed to death in Piedmont Park in late July. The FBI is assisting Atlanta police in the investigation, but no suspects have been publicly identified.”},{“_id”:”22Z7WF3FWRHDXPREKZYRDT5FFY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629511996069},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The family of Mayco Rodrigue is among the grieving loved ones eager for answers. In May, Rodrique was shot as he rode in a friend’s car on Ga. 400, according to Atlanta police. The father of six and grandfather of two died from his injuries when a bullet entered his back and struck his heart, his family said.”},{“_id”:”Y2UF4SNRKBEDNEB33B2BN7Z7S4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629511996070},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“It was a complete shock,” said Kanika Rodrique, his wife of 16 years, days after his death. “He was enjoying life and someone stole that from him. And I’m really upset and angry.””},{“_id”:”IWVQLINVANB37E5YBBYPDO37YQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629511996071},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Among the 2021 homicide cases are at least seven cases where a person traveling inside a car was shot and killed. Roadway shootings have killed 15 people this year in metro Atlanta and surrounding counties, and a majority of the cases remain unsolved.”},{“_id”:”IUSRRFXQA5FI5HRHLMVBB2SCQM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629511996072},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“I’m really looking for justice for him,” Kanika Rodrique said.”},{“_id”:”2HZ7ORXG55E4BIVZHXLRYHADFM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629511996073},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Anyone with information on any homicide cases can submit a tip anonymously to the Crime Stoppers Atlanta tip line at 404-577-8477, online at www.crimestoppersatlanta.org or by texting CSA and the tip to CRIMES (274637). 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Anyone with information on the fatal incident is asked to contact Atlanta police.”},{“_id”:”ETUBBLTBHFCYPHEC5YKBSUZXNM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629711844701},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The fatal shooting happened within nine hours of shooting that left a man dead on Magnolia Way in northwest Atlanta.”},{“_id”:”4YQ63MCIDBBE5JRWZ5NFSC2ISE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629711844702},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The victim, identified by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office as 28-year-old Johnathan Pennington, was found inside a car with a gunshot wound just before 4 p.m. He was rushed to a hospital in critical condition before succumbing to his injuries, making the 100th investigation into a homicide that police have opened this year.”},{“_id”:”IMDKBMCLDVCMZCKNUY7IOBMBTA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629711844703},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The grim milestone reflects the increase in violent crime that Atlanta police and city leaders have been combatting for more than a year.”},{“_id”:”YTTE73CAKBARZHCH74J2HEGEDI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629711844704},”type”:”text”,”content”:”In 2020, the Atlanta Police Department investigated 157 homicides, up from 99 in 2019 and the most in more than two decades. 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Having an association with Americans can make SIV holders vulnerable to being targeted by the Taliban and put their safety at risk.”},{“_id”:”5VTKSADZVBE2LFD3NQZIU2BZEE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629495577053},”type”:”text”,”content”:”A refugee is defined as a person who flees their homeland due to fears of war, violence or persecution. Once safe in another country, they will register with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, while staying at a refugee camp or a safe location within their new host country. The United Nations estimates there to be more than 26 million refugees in the world right now, and less than 1% of those people are resettled. Those who are chosen for resettlement, and permitted to come to the United States, quality for the refugee resettlement program. This is a part of a public-private partnership between that includes the United States government and resettlement organizations. These groups will help get refugees accustomed to life in the U.S. through educational programs and community-based support.”},{“_id”:”YVPA4UXDDJECPILNCWG763O7PQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629487838363},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Are Afghans who come to the United States under the Special Immigrant Visa program given the same resettlement aid as refugees?”},{“_id”:”M5445MDWABARBDOODSOFE4Q4FQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629468413891},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Yes. Once an Afghan SIV holder arrives stateside they are eligible for the same services as a refugee. The only difference between an SIV holder and refugee, from an aid standpoint, is the pathway in which they got to the United States.”},{“_id”:”4P7ZJYSVOZGDJJRBKP2LIZC23A”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629480159302},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Is there a vetting process in place for those being resettled in the United States?”},{“_id”:”RTBRCWGRTBANNAH2W727BVX3XA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629480159303},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Yes, the refugee resettlement process includes biometric screenings and security screenings with various government organizations including the military and FBI. Participants are also required to go through medical clearances and screenings. While overseas, refugees do not have a say in their relocation country; however, if they qualify to come to the United States agencies will attempt to resettle them near loved ones they have may in this country.”},{“_id”:”5BZOPW7JTFA5TJYBGLYUMYBBMQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629493712172},”type”:”text”,”content”:”How about the airfare to come to the United States, who pays for the ticket?”},{“_id”:”WNHKOESBHJHFPJHWLQEBZEZAWI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629468413899},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The federal government requires anyone in the resettlement program to begin paying back their airfare fees six months of their arrival. This is because airplane tickets and other transportation fees are considered a loan by the government.”},{“_id”:”NFTKVTL72VBFZI63YT5BHD6NK4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629468413892},”type”:”text”,”content”:”What are some of the services refugees and SIV holders can expect when they arrive to the U.S.?”},{“_id”:”65C72GZBMZDFHPCMSL2DDRSQU4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629468413893},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The International Rescue Committee is one of several agencies working with these groups, and it provides a safe place for them to live, furnishes it, and stocks the pantry with culturally appropriate food. They also get picked up from the airport, and given a hot meal once they make it to their new homes, Howell said. They’re also given a quick orientation about the program and expectations. Within the first 10 days of their arrival, refugees and SIV holders will receive a medical screening. Aid organizations will also help with basic needs such as enrolling children in school, providing adults access to language-classes, job training and employment support, such as resume development.”},{“_id”:”S7KKKGQBPJBHJCJWSWMO5HGCLM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629500297587},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Another local group, the Refugee Women’s Network, is fundraising to help new Afghan arrivals resettle in the Atlanta area. The RWN was created about 25 years ago with the purpose of aiding refugee and immigrant families in Georgia. Donations are used to purchase basic goods such as clothing, kitchen supplies and food, along with providing social services, said Marjan Nadir, an economic empowerment manager with the group.”},{“_id”:”TOK6CDH6KNDPJDVB2HQ33KKBDU”,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”G3UUYVUCNFEGRG6O3OC2VHSGAY”},”type”:”interstitial_link”,”content”:”How to help people affected by unrest in Afghanistan”,”url”:”https://www.ajc.com/life/how-to-help-people-affected-by-unrest-in-afghanistan/HL7JCGJPMRAHZD2J4IWO44IFKQ/”},{“_id”:”J4M737UXTVCVPJZDMNQM3MZLHI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629468413896},”type”:”text”,”content”:”How long does it take for the typical new arrivals to able to become self-sufficient?”},{“_id”:”QWLFZCE7IJBNFCT7NFPQMIQOFI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629468413897},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Howell said about 90% of the families and individuals his office serves are fully self-sufficient within six months of their arrival. Although they’re welcome to continue a relationship with the IRC in Atlanta for support, such as help meeting educational goals.”},{“_id”:”ZUAHP3L255EMJO7UGUQ3EOHVPI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629468413900},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Is there a pathway to citizenship for people who come to the United States on SIV or through the standard refugee resettlement program?”},{“_id”:”X7OMMN4ITBD4RP464BFFWZM4UA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629493712179},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Anyone who comes to the country as an SIV holder or through refugee resettlement is on a full pathway to citizenship the minute they land stateside, Howell said. They are also eligible to work and pay taxes from the moment they arrive.”},{“_id”:”WLJG2FDLRZADVNICEY6JBYK6TE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629468413908},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Paradise Afshar is a Report for America corps member covering metro Atlanta’s immigrant communities.”}],”display_date”:”2021-08-22T12:00:00Z”,”headlines”:{“basic”:”FAQ: How aid groups are preparing to help Afghan refugees”},”first_publish_date”:”2021-08-22T12:00:02.531Z”,”taxonomy”:{“sections”:[{“path”:”/news”,”parent”:{“default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”_website”:”ajc”,”parent_id”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”name”:”News”,”description”:”Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles – Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”_id”:”/news”,”additional_properties”:{“original”:{“parent”:{“AmpNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”BottomNav”:null,”TopNavRedesign”:null,”SectionMap”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”LoggedOutMenu”:null,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”TopNav”:null,”TopicsBar”:null,”ComposerNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”site”:{“site_url”:”https://www.ajc.com/news/”,”section_comments_enabled”:”Yes”,”site_description”:”Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles – Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”site_title”:”Atlanta GA News | Top News Page”},”navigation”:{“nav_title”:”News”},”inactive”:false,”node_type”:”section”,”_website”:”ajc”,”name”:”News”,”Sponsor”:{“sponsor_url_open_new_tab”:”true”,”sponsor_desktop_banner”:””,”sponsor_mobile_banner”:””,”sponsor_url”:””},”_id”:”/news”,”ancestors”:{“AmpNav”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”default”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”BottomNav”:[],”TopNavRedesign”:[],”SectionMap”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”LoggedOutMenu”:[],”MainMenuRedesign2021″:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”TopicsBar”:[]},”order”:{“AmpNav”:1001,”default”:1001,”SectionMap”:1018,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:1001,”ComposerNav”:1135}}},”_website_section_id”:”ajc./news”,”type”:”section”,”version”:”0.6.0″}],”primary_section”:{“path”:”/news”,”name”:”News”},”tags”:[{“text”:”teamjanel”},{“text”:”reportforamerica”},{“text”:”immigrantcommunities”},{“text”:”news.naviga”},{“text”:”politics.ajc”}]},”type”:”story”,”last_updated_date”:”2021-08-22T19:24:04.035Z”,”canonical_url”:”/news/qa-with-international-rescue-committee-atlanta-director-about-afghan-refugees/SYAQQZCMG5DOHFFM3NW2NTS6PY/”,”promo_items”:{“basic”:{“subtitle”:”People trying to flee the country gather outside of the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. 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Investigators believe the three were involved in a fight before the shooting.”},{“_id”:”5JCPJNIFJRC2DPJRUZJOVNCS6E”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”98Aug. 19: One person was killed in a double shooting at an apartment complex in southeast Atlanta, according to police. Shortly after 7 p.m., officers were called to the Villages of East Lake apartments on Greenhaven Drive. There, officers found one man with a gunshot wound, police said. Moments later, a second gunshot victim was found.”}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629513119399},”type”:”text”,”content”:””},{“_id”:”D2AK6YZGOJCOBNZQRB25Y7ACZY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”99″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629513119400},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Aug. 19: Andre Clements, 28, was killed in a shooting on Marietta Street, Atlanta police said.”},{“_id”:”WAPYSRCHHJCGRKERP24H4PHWXM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629513119401},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Officers were called shortly after 2 p.m. to 469 Marietta Street, where they found a man with a gunshot wound. Clements died after being taken to a local hospital, according to police.”},{“_id”:”GQTQYDUJEJHYFCLW4XOWSVWK6E”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”96″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629397172939},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Aug. 17: Jerome McKibbens, 33, was found with a gunshot wound at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Fairburn Road in southwest Atlanta, according to investigators. Officers were called to the intersection about 11:30 p.m. McKibbens was already dead.”},{“_id”:”U466TESAXVBOXDUELBQZZKSASI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”95″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629397172940},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Aug. 14: Omar Whatley, 39, was found with a gunshot wound inside of a car in the 600 block of Cascade Avenue just before 11:15 p.m., Atlanta police said. He was in critical condition when he was taken to the hospital, but did not survive.”},{“_id”:”TZ2YS766I5GIFEV25TOF2YT7TI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”94″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629397172941},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Aug. 14: Officers were called to Andrew J. Hairston Boulevard just after 10 a.m. and found Dontrez D. Lewis, 23, of Mobile, Alabama, who had been shot repeatedly, police said. Lewis was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, but later died of his injuries.”},{“_id”:”3IPTRKIYF5EUBHWA663NLWHQEU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”93″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629409794069},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Aug.14: Around 5:29 am, officers responded to a person shot at 497 Oakdale Rd NE. There, they found a man who had been shot. The victim was transported to Grady in critical condition where he succumbed to his injuries.”},{“_id”:”FZPISXPABVHTDFX63MFZUC5UPQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”92″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629226621704},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Aug. 13: Mariam Abdulrab’s body was discovered in southeast Atlanta, four hours after she was reported kidnapped. Abdulrab, 27, had been shot multiple times and was left near the intersection of Lakewood Avenue and Terrace Way in the Lakewood Heights neighborhood. DeMarcus Brinkley, 27, was charged with her murder.”},{“_id”:”D3BODWN3TVCEPEM32FZ57TDSOY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”91″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628821468221},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Aug. 10: Zerrick Monson, 27, was found shot to death on a south Atlanta sidewalk. Authorities were called to the 2600 block of Old Hapeville Road shortly after midnight. 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Capers was the father of a 1-year-old son, according to a GoFundMe page.”},{“_id”:”WH2SSOAKDFEJPPG4XFRGWU22SM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”88″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628821468218},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Aug. 5: Taurean Sanders, 35, was shot July 23 during a fight in a parking lot on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Investigators initially believed the gunman acted in self-defense when he shot Sanders, who lived in Conyers. But Messiah Yaled-Bashaar was later charged with murder, according to police.”},{“_id”:”6I3LBODO65ARRLLR54VJOHVEGM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”87″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628821468217},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Aug. 4: Lawrence Hicks, 33, shot at the Providence at Cascade apartments on Fairburn Road. When officers arrived about 10:20 p.m., they found two people with gunshot wounds. 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Ja’kari, who would have been in the 12th grade at Life Christian Academy in Forest Park, had recently told his mom he was looking forward to his senior prom. An arrest warrant was issued for a suspect, whose name was not released.”},{“_id”:”XCD5RLTD3RB43F7PHZ5VC3IAUM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”82″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628821468210},”type”:”text”,”content”:”July 24: Javarian Benton, 28, shot on Argus Circle in northwest Atlanta. Two others were also shot, according to police. Investigators later identified a suspect. Unterio Ponds was charged with murder and arrested Aug. 6.”},{“_id”:”XCD5RLTD3RB43F7PHZ5VC3IAUM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”81″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628821468210},”type”:”text”,”content”:”July 24: Bernard Harvey, 55, was found dead inside a North Avenue apartment. Few details were released on the case, which remains an open investigation.”},{“_id”:”FE4TZW4IXZAWBLWC2QT6UFGKPE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”80″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628821468209},”type”:”text”,”content”:”July 20: Nicholas Brown, 32, was shot after a fight with a woman in the 1300 block of Kimberly Way, police said. Within minutes, investigators identified a suspect. Tynessia Lashun Naji, 24, was arrested on charges of murder and aggravated assault.”},{“_id”:”VQINBBN7RBHTBAUKCCUINSKMJ4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”79″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628821468208},”type”:”text”,”content”:”July 17: Danzel Mullins, 34, found shot to death inside a car that was on fire in Atlanta’s West End neighborhood. Investigators later released video of a car whose driver may have been involved in the crime, which happened in the 900 block of Cunningham Place.”},{“_id”:”6WBWZTJHGRB2PLUYJ67YQWZT6Y”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”78″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628821468207},”type”:”text”,”content”:”July 15: Joshua Evans, 36, killed in a drive-by shooting at a convenience store. Evans and another man were standing with a woman outside the Pick’n’Pay at the corner of Joseph E. Boone Boulevard and Chappell Road, according to Atlanta police. Antonio Waller, 19, was later arrested and charged with murder.”},{“_id”:”4NCIXB6VLFG4HEYYJK2E2WOC2U”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”77″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628821468206},”type”:”text”,”content”:”July 13: Jahvarious Colvin, 15, shot to death at a gas station in southwest Atlanta. Officers responded to the BP station at 516 Lee Street SW in Atlanta’s West End neighborhood just before 6:30 p.m., Atlanta police said. Marion Davenport was arrested Aug. 1 and charged with murder, according to police.”},{“_id”:”P7D2IFBM2VFLPIKU6PQ5BC6Q4E”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”76″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628821468205},”type”:”text”,”content”:”July 12: Kenderrick Murphy, 23, shot July 4 on Hills Avenue in southwest Atlanta. He died eight days later and the case became a homicide investigation. The investigation continues.”},{“_id”:”T4ERUDSUK5DUDEQXX4EIJM2GBU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”75″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1626121954721},”type”:”text”,”content”:”July 9: Wendell Williams, 30, shot near the MARTA Five Points transit station. Officers responded to a call about a person shot on Broad Street, a pedestrian-only side street that connects to the MARTA station, around 2:20 p.m., according to Atlanta police. 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Investigators said her mother, 44-year-old Alicia Baker, was involved in a fight with another woman, which may have led to the double shooting.”},{“_id”:”RXYJZXAZNZARJGOERVROW6AKYI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”73″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1626121954719},”type”:”text”,”content”:”July 4: Keon Yarber, 31 shot on 24 William H Borders Drive. Yarber had been shot multiple times and died at a local hospital. No arrests have been made in the case.”},{“_id”:”JEPMOIAHWJAMND74FZII74JIHU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”72″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628821468201},”type”:”text”,”content”:”July 3: A 14-year-old boy was killed and two other teens were injured after a massive brawl ended in gunfire in the 600 block of McAfee Street, police said. Nearly 50 teenagers were present when the melee broke out and many had arrived on scooters, according to police. One 16-year-old, whose name was not released, was charged with murder.”},{“_id”:”TYDYK5KG4FAU5IW7P6TQXF4CLE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”71″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628821468200},”type”:”text”,”content”:”June 30: Mario Peterson, 43, was shot to death at an apartment complex on Vanira Avenue shortly after midnight June 24. A suspect, Sequoyah Howard, 32, was later charged with murder. Peterson was a father of four and lived in Peoplestown, according to his online obituary.”},{“_id”:”JEPMOIAHWJAMND74FZII74JIHU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”70″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628821468199},”type”:”text”,”content”:”June 26: Bailey Dee, 20, was killed in a drive-by shooting around 1:30 a.m. outside a condominium building in the 200 block of Piedmont Avenue, according to Atlanta police. He lived in Champaign, Illinois.”},{“_id”:”COTDCQT6VJEE5HHGTQFUJBTYKE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”69″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628821468198},”type”:”text”,”content”:”June 24: Encre Styles, 30, was shot on June 16 at a Chevron at 1739 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The case was later declared a homicide. Both De’Shant Hester, 24, and Tahliek Hester, 27, were later arrested and charged with murder.”},{“_id”:”TLOOSXIAWVAO3J2WOYCEVVRLRQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”68″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1626121954716},”type”:”text”,”content”:”June 23: Antonio Gregg, 37, shot to death in the 500 block of Boulevard, near Morgan-Boulevard Park. Gregg, shot in northeast Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward neighborhood, may have been targeted, according to police. Officers responded shortly before 6 p.m. and found a man with multiple gunshot wounds.”},{“_id”:”4OIAN7FROVBSXLTM5ZKPHUJG2I”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”67″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1624476034222},”type”:”text”,”content”:”June 23: One passenger, 35-year-old Kevin Fulton, was killed and another was critically injured after their rideshare driver opened fire outside a northeast Atlanta gas station, police said. The driver, Nigel Nembhard, 36, was charged with felony murder and aggravated assault.”},{“_id”:”VHVMAKJYGNBK7MP5U74N3UG3D4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”66″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1624476034221},”type”:”text”,”content”:”June 22: A double shooting at a northeast Atlanta apartment complex left one person dead and another injured, police said. Officers arrived at the 400 block of Central Park Place around 4:45 p.m. regarding a person shot, police confirmed. Malik Campbell, 30, died at the scene.”},{“_id”:”OGDOD2XF3BGWXNUJ2PTNK4J45A”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”65″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1624476034220},”type”:”text”,”content”:”June 20: A 37-year-old man, later identified as Rasttish Fallen was shot and killed at 421 Boulevard NE, Atlanta police said. Police identified Eddie Jackson, 52, as the murder suspect and he surrendered the same day. Witnesses said Jackson and Fallen argued before shots were fired in the northeast Atlanta neighborhood.”},{“_id”:”ZT7EJPP53ND5NHCTOAKYEX5FZQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”64″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1623674132599},”type”:”text”,”content”:”June 13: Corey Burnett, a 26-year-old man, died after he was found shot near a southeast Atlanta gas station in the 1600 block of Eastland Road. Investigators believe he was shot less than a mile away on Montvallo Terrace, according to a police report. Burnett lived in Lithonia, according to his obituary.”},{“_id”:”BBXXE4UWS5GAHP2ZD6MQB4XBCM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”63″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1623418969598},”type”:”text”,”content”:”June 11: Diamond O’Neal, 23, shot in northwest Atlanta. O’Neal was found in an apartment near the intersection of West Lake Avenue and Joseph E. Boone Boulevard, police said. After a man was found shot at a nearby gas station, officers followed a trail of blood to a nearby apartment complex. On June 17, 28-year-old Vorquis Williams was arrested and charged with murder and two counts of aggravated assault.”},{“_id”:”R5JKQMWOUBBZXPVHQBVEBRWVGE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”62″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628821468190},”type”:”text”,”content”:”June 4: Eddie Walker, 71, hit with a hammer May 25 on Herring Road in southwest Atlanta. Investigators found the hammer beside Walker, who was found in an abandoned home. He died June 1 and the case became a homicide investigation. An arrest warrant was issued for a suspect.”},{“_id”:”RTEB2AJMMRBEHCIPLT5J3YIQEY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”61″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1622832895090},”type”:”text”,”content”:”June 3: Courtney Lyons Jr., 21, shot on Perry Boulevard. Lyons’ body was found just after 8 a.m. at the Westside Crossing Apartments. He lived in Loganville, according to his online obituary. Two suspects, Marcayla Brianna Kemp and Billy Wells, were arrested and charged with murder three days later, jail records show.”},{“_id”:”NKSWRFP3MBF5FMBUGUD2MXC2FI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”60″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1622819190781},”type”:”text”,”content”:”June 2: Justine Bernard, 19, shot on Auburn Avenue. Bernard was shot while visiting Atlanta, according to police. Nyasia Reeves, a 20-year-old suspect, was arrested and charged with murder. Bernard was a student at the University of New Haven in Connecticut, according to the university.”},{“_id”:”HW3HLR5UMZCEBCZWYRANPBHWLU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”59″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1622819190780},”type”:”text”,”content”:”June 1: Ray Gibson, 29, on Harwell Road. Gibson was found shot in the parking lot of the Vue at Harwell apartment complex.”},{“_id”:”U4OYLYU6CZFVPD77XGHJ6Z56N4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”58″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1622819190778},”type”:”text”,”content”:”May 31: Michael Gary, 46, shot on Fairburn Road. Gary was killed in a drive-by shooting in the parking lot of the Fairburn Gordon Apartments. 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Jackson Jr. was shot in his own bedroom, according to his family and police. Jamarion Ivory, 18, was charged with his murder.”},{“_id”:”NIQM4PM2WRC55NWJJP7O57AJQI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”56″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1623110649793},”type”:”text”,”content”:”May 28: Jaques Gresham, 26, on William H. Borders Drive Gresham was killed in a drive-by shooting in southeast Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn neighborhood. He is survived by a young daughter, according to a GoFundMe page.”},{“_id”:”CC42BUCKMRG6ZHTLWLBB47GKG4″,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”ER6WESPMU5DJ3POLFX4ADSZK6M”},”type”:”raw_html”,”content”:”“},{“_id”:”UZKDABTRERA67CIFUJCFEEZWUI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”55″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1622819190775},”type”:”text”,”content”:”May 27: Jaquayon Gibson, 19, shot on Larchwood Road. Gibson died after being shot multiple times following a dispute in southwest Atlanta.”},{“_id”:”XB7BQTHDE5CSDKJU4S7PKATQHQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”54″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1622819190774},”type”:”text”,”content”:”May 22: Zechariah Tyrell Guyton, 19, shot at a house party on Lanvale Drive. Guyton was one of two shot at a southwest Atlanta home, but the other victim survived, according to police. Tarik Brown was later arrested and charged with murder.”},{“_id”:”VN7ORGOJFZF7ZOG7N3WVYE656E”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”53″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628821468178},”type”:”text”,”content”:”May 14: Vernon Harper, 30, shot on Lang Drive. The father of two was killed while visiting a friend, according to investigators. He was killed during an argument. In June, James McClendon, 45, was charged with felony murder.”},{“_id”:”ZKQP7MFH7BHKXFJSCLNQDSLI2U”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”52″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1622819190773},”type”:”text”,”content”:”May 17: Keith Sharpe, 43, shot on Piedmont Road. Sharpe was killed in the bathroom of the Azule Restaurant and Lounge in Buckhead. An arrest warrant was issued for a suspect.”},{“_id”:”2MJDSYF7DNHUPJ64MH3NIOLNZE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”51″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1622819190772},”type”:”text”,”content”:”May 17: Alan Turner, 29, shot on Metropolitan Parkway. A 15-year-old boy was arrested and faces multiple charges related to Turner’s death at Metro Mart USA in southwest Atlanta.”},{“_id”:”GHDW36YURBDJVLRSJOOK7ECWQE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”50″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628821468171},”type”:”text”,”content”:”May 17: Alicia Merrell, 27, shot on Magnolia Way. Merrell was shot multiple times at an apartment complex, according to police. She was a mother of five. The investigation continues into her death.”},{“_id”:”EHHUGVEXLFCTJKW7RZDEYHVGGU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”49″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1622819190770},”type”:”text”,”content”:”May 17: Mayco Rodrique, 38, shot on Ga. 400. Rodrique was shot as he rode in a friend’s car, according to police. The father of six and grandfather of two died from his injuries when a bullet entered his back and struck his heart, his family said. The case remains under investigation.”},{“_id”:”XOBR43AZMFDQ5EICWJY736R7UA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”48″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628781690503},”type”:”text”,”content”:”May 11: Tjvanish Brown, infant, died on Fulton Street. The newborn’s mother told police she awoke to find him cold to the touch, according to police. In May, the baby’s mother, Erica Brown, was arrested charged with second-degree murder and second-degree cruelty to children.”},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”address”:{},”syndication”:{},”caption”:”Tykeisha Dixon (left) and her husband Luke Henderson were reported missing from their Roswell apartment on Friday. 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Investigators believe the Roswell woman was shot in Atlanta and her body later dumped in Illinois. Her husband was later located in Washington and charged with her death.”},{“_id”:”XD3OA6CQC5HMBC6WSXGKOX2BF4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”46″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1622819190767},”type”:”text”,”content”:”May 9: Lenwood Colbert, 58, shot on Forrest Park Road. Colbert was found shot inside a parked Ford Fusion, according to police. He died after being taken to Grady Memorial Hospital. A suspect, Jylan Nelson, was arrested in July and charged with murder.”},{“_id”:”XD3OA6CQC5HMBC6WSXGKOX2BF4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”45″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1622819190767},”type”:”text”,”content”:”May 9: Adrian Zavala, 54, shot on Jonesboro Road. Zavala was killed at the Colony South mobile home park, according to police. A suspect, Mucio Dolores Rodriguez Hernandez, was later charged with murder in the case, police said.”},{“_id”:”Z44UB7Y7GZGXFFM4U46L2523HU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”44″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1622819190765},”type”:”text”,”content”:”May 8: Dexter Calhoun, 63, shot on Emerald Avenue. Calhoun was shot inside his pickup truck and then crashed into a pole in southwest Atlanta. No arrests have been made in his death.”},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”address”:{},”syndication”:{},”caption”:”Atlanta police are seeking information in the weekend shooting death of 15-year-old Diamond Johnson.”,”source”:{“system”:”photo center”,”name”:”AJC”,”edit_url”:””,”source_type”:”staff”,”additional_properties”:{“editor”:”photo center”}},”taxonomy”:{“associated_tasks”:[]},”type”:”image”,”distributor”:{“mode”:”reference”,”reference_id”:”8aec2b8c-455c-4816-903d-79fc8fdf8019″},”version”:”0.10.3″,”url”:”https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/NG46SUA75BAVDOIWTGPSRQ7VLI.jpg”,”licensable”:false,”credits”:{“affiliation”:[],”by”:[{“name”:”Atlanta Police Department”,”type”:”author”,”byline”:”Atlanta Police Department”}]},”subtitle”:”diamond johnson”,”width”:1000,”_id”:”NG46SUA75BAVDOIWTGPSRQ7VLI”,”additional_properties”:{“fullSizeResizeUrl”:”/resizer/ZPsCeWjJklyxce3hB41caAd7ESs=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/NG46SUA75BAVDOIWTGPSRQ7VLI.jpg”,”owner”:”chelsea.prince@ajc.com”,”comments”:[],”proxyUrl”:”/resizer/ZPsCeWjJklyxce3hB41caAd7ESs=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/NG46SUA75BAVDOIWTGPSRQ7VLI.jpg”,”originalUrl”:”https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/NG46SUA75BAVDOIWTGPSRQ7VLI.jpg”,”published”:true,”resizeUrl”:”/resizer/ZPsCeWjJklyxce3hB41caAd7ESs=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/NG46SUA75BAVDOIWTGPSRQ7VLI.jpg”,”ingestionMethod”:”manual”,”thumbnailResizeUrl”:”/resizer/SbfkJNxntidzA8d-iYZ1GAm5NcE=/300×0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/NG46SUA75BAVDOIWTGPSRQ7VLI.jpg”,”version”:0,”originalName”:”johnson, diamond.jpg_web.jpg”,”mime_type”:”image/jpeg”,”restricted”:false,”template_id”:594,”galleries”:[],”_id”:”KTGARSSCEVDXRMBOSXHUB2UDCU”},”created_date”:”2021-05-04T11:10:32Z”,”last_updated_date”:”2021-05-04T11:10:32Z”,”height”:563,”image_type”:”photograph”},{“_id”:”EN3QQQFIHJAC5OG7VYCHYZ536U”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”43″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1622819190764},”type”:”text”,”content”:”May 1: Diamond Johnson, 15, shot on Glenwood Avenue. Johnson was shot near a busy shopping center across the street from Maynard Jackson High School, where she was a student. A woman, Elizabeth Parham, was later charged with her murder.”},{“_id”:”KGP6XROERFHC7AGB4RNC6LPWXU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”42″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1622819190762},”type”:”text”,”content”:”April 29: Anthony Parker, 35, shot on Polar Rock Terrace. Six men were shot, but all but Parker survived following the incident at a southwest Atlanta home, according to police. He lived in Ellenwood, according to his obituary. No arrests have been made.”},{“_id”:”TSWL76DYHJFMZPGHXL7A4GQ6WI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”41″}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1622819190761},”type”:”text”,”content”:”April 29: Daylon Wilson, 21, shot on Chappell Road. Wilson was among seven people who were shot, killing two, in two separate incidents that occurred less than 30 minutes apart. 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Police arrived to find a man dead in the street.”},{“_id”:”O2UVS3QKX5E7ZN4A6QOHCC2EHE”,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”MYIDUVSA5FHBFARFBDMZGQXOLI”},”type”:”raw_html”,”content”:”“},{“_id”:”EVNHSVA5ARH2XCHQ6PP3TPSWB4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[]},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“Officers learned two vehicles were involved in the accident with the pedestrian,” Isaac said, adding that both drivers remained at the scene. “},{“_id”:”4BAQUSM2FFEMXOHL36RXXC74QQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[]},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Police are withholding the man’s name and age until his family has been notified. “}],”display_date”:”2021-08-21T21:18:00.801Z”,”headlines”:{“basic”:”Man struck by 2 cars, killed on busy Clayton County road”},”first_publish_date”:”2021-08-21T21:18:00.801Z”,”taxonomy”:{“sections”:[{“path”:”/news”,”parent”:{“default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”_website”:”ajc”,”parent_id”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”name”:”News”,”description”:”Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles – Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”_id”:”/news”,”additional_properties”:{“original”:{“parent”:{“AmpNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”BottomNav”:null,”TopNavRedesign”:null,”SectionMap”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”LoggedOutMenu”:null,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”TopNav”:null,”TopicsBar”:null,”ComposerNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”site”:{“site_url”:”https://www.ajc.com/news/”,”section_comments_enabled”:”Yes”,”site_description”:”Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles – Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”site_title”:”Atlanta GA News | Top News Page”},”navigation”:{“nav_title”:”News”},”inactive”:false,”node_type”:”section”,”_website”:”ajc”,”name”:”News”,”Sponsor”:{“sponsor_url_open_new_tab”:”true”,”sponsor_desktop_banner”:””,”sponsor_mobile_banner”:””,”sponsor_url”:””},”_id”:”/news”,”ancestors”:{“AmpNav”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”default”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”BottomNav”:[],”TopNavRedesign”:[],”SectionMap”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”LoggedOutMenu”:[],”MainMenuRedesign2021″:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”TopicsBar”:[]},”order”:{“AmpNav”:1001,”default”:1001,”SectionMap”:1018,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:1001,”ComposerNav”:1135}}},”_website_section_id”:”ajc./news”,”type”:”section”,”version”:”0.6.0″}],”primary_section”:{“path”:”/news”,”name”:”News”},”tags”:[{“text”:”breaking-news.ajc”},{“text”:”crime-news.ajc”},{“text”:”publicsafety.ajc”},{“text”:”atlanta-now”},{“text”:”teamjennifer”},{“text”:”clayton county”}]},”type”:”story”,”last_updated_date”:”2021-08-21T21:22:42.139Z”,”canonical_url”:”/news/man-struck-by-two-cars-killed-on-busy-clayton-county-road/X325CZN7GBAXHEHDR3GRFPTMKE/”,”promo_items”:{“basic”:{“credits”:{“affiliation”:[]},”subtitle”:”Ambulance”,”width”:800,”caption”:”Clayton County police said the man was dead when officers arrived about 4:15 a.m.”,”type”:”image”,”url”:”https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/PX5FC4UW55CLDLQDUOQU6DXM3I.jpg”,”height”:520}},”_id”:”X325CZN7GBAXHEHDR3GRFPTMKE”},{“content_elements”:[{“_id”:”QWFIIQGQR5AKFHTT3LCQFNZCYU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1593365483154},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Two siblings are dead and a man is behind bars following a double shooting Friday evening in southwest Atlanta.”},{“_id”:”Y3F56W3SC5CI7ENGRHBWP4HI6A”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629517900233},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Police responded to the shooting outside a home in the 1100 block of Sells Avenue about 8:45 p.m. Officers arrived to discover two people, a brother and sister, dead inside a car, Maj. 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TPS has historically been granted to immigrants living in the U.S. from countries affected by natural disaster, armed conflict, or other conditions that make it unsafe to return.”},{“_id”:”PFQTGBLGENA4FEZSTCBZDPBPTY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628616053132},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“This additional year is a great opportunity, because it really gives us time to organize and create more outreach material and make sure that the community has all of the resources they need to file,” said Pedro Viloria, with the Latino Community Fund.”},{“_id”:”EWFBI26DBNACLDM3SSWFFTGVBY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628616053133},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Viloria is familiar with metro Atlanta’s Venezuelan enclave: he is Venezuelan himself, and his family runs a Venezuelan arepas restaurant in Duluth. 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For most applicants, the filing fee is $545.”},{“_id”:”EGCATVCELJE6XPR763PPS4THWQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628616053136},”type”:”text”,”content”:”After Florida and Texas, Georgia is home to the third-largest group of unauthorized Venezuelan immigrants eligible for TPS, according to estimates from the Center for Migration Studies, a nonpartisan think tank.”},{“level”:3,”_id”:”GKLP4DBMZNFAVBJPZOCYW4P6MI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628616053137},”type”:”header”,”content”:”TPS misconceptions”},{“_id”:”37C7KMYU3JD4ZDKNC3S6MIUZIU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628616053138},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Among the factors that keep some Venezuelans from filing for TPS, Urbina says, is concern that the government won’t renew the protected status beyond its initial designation period, currently slated to end on Sep. 9 2022. The concern is valid: TPS is meant to be temporary. Critics have warned against allowing the program to lead to a more permanent residency for recipients.”},{“_id”:”A7HVNYYRJFCOJIKYQXIXB3ZL24″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628616053139},”type”:”text”,”content”:”But the reality is that many countries’ TPS designations get renewed with regularity, according to Urbina.”},{“_id”:”NQ3R45MV5BEPJLHYAQG6EEITJQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628616053140},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“Unless the situation in Venezuela just completely magically improves by [September 2022], it will be extended beyond that point,” he said.”},{“_id”:”YX4FNKD2HBDTZGYGCIEKCQSUWE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628616053141},”type”:”text”,”content”:”There are also worries among the community, advocates say, that filing for TPS could jeopardize separate applications for asylum, an immigration benefit that, unlike TPS, lays out a path to citizenship. In reality, immigrants with pending asylum claims as well as immigrants who are planning on applying for asylum in the future can also file for TPS, with no adverse effect on their case.”},{“_id”:”STXA3RQQS5CORJ5IRBO2WMYZKU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628616053142},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“If you apply for asylum and you get granted that status, that would be more permanent status in the U.S. but I also think it’s generally better to have more than one option,” said Nina Salazar, staff attorney at the Latin American Association. “I would really encourage immigrants who are in the process of the asylum application or thinking of applying for asylum to also submit their TPS applications as well.””},{“_id”:”KU4KCZ6XVZD3TEVF5W64KOYFPY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628616053143},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Both Salazar and Urbina indicated that approval rates for TPS are higher than those for asylum. That’s especially true for asylum cases that fall under the jurisdiction of Georgia’s immigration courts, which have some of the highest denial rates in the nation, according to data compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a nonpartisan research organization at Syracuse University. In the five-year period from 2015 to 2020, immigration courtrooms in Atlanta registered an average denial rate of 95.6%, compared to 50.1% in a city like Boston.”},{“_id”:”QRFG2JX5AJETLAS7DHZQQ5FLU4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628616053144},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“[TPS] allows for Venezuelans to have a migration status here and to be present lawfully, so it really opens up a lot of doors and opportunities,” said Viloria. “This is really a big victory for the Venezuelan community and we want to make sure that everyone that qualifies for this opportunity has access to it.””},{“_id”:”Q7CICFNQHJHMDLTP4HOANWYWNQ”,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”Z7GV573JNNEMDP6TQJIHNQ5ARE”},”type”:”divider”},{“_id”:”VRRAQROJ2NA2PAACXMQ6AK6BEY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628868241396},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Who qualifies for Venezuelan TPS?”},{“_id”:”ACOBBAAHRNDNLHMS7RXRGM26Y4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628616053148},”type”:”text”,”content”:”-Venezuelan nationals who can prove that they have continuously resided in the US since March 8, 2021″},{“_id”:”3ZSI77LMOFAZ3IXULYGIR6VR3E”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628616053149},”type”:”text”,”content”:”-All individuals applying for TPS must undergo security and background checks (those who have been convicted of a felony or two or more misdemeanors will be deemed ineligible)”},{“_id”:”MR4OSLENWFABPFKHGI46KSOJTQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629121260382},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Help with applications”},{“_id”:”QRFG2JX5AJETLAS7DHZQQ5FLU4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1628616053144},”type”:”text”,”content”:”To help Venezuelans in the metro Atlanta area file for TPS, The Latino Community Fund is co-hosting a free TPS clinic on Saturday, August 21 in Duluth at EPA! EAT AREPA!, 2870 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. Immigration attorneys will be on hand to help people with their applications from 9 AM to 1 PM. Appointments are required, and can be booked on UnidosGeorgia.com. To avoid becoming victims of immigration scams, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) advises TPS applicants to pursue legal assistance only from accredited providers.”},{“_id”:”CMPUVKTUAJEB5OME6CVKDQ26PU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:”TKSM6MPBUNGN7D7LMRL3MQ3FCI”},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Lautaro Grinspan is a Report for America corps member covering metro Atlanta’s immigrant communities.”}],”display_date”:”2021-08-21T14:07:27.315Z”,”headlines”:{“basic”:”Advocates mobilize to help Venezuelans in Ga. file for Temporary Protected Status”},”first_publish_date”:”2021-08-21T14:07:27.315Z”,”taxonomy”:{“sections”:[{“path”:”/news”,”parent”:{“default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”_website”:”ajc”,”parent_id”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”name”:”News”,”description”:”Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles – Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”_id”:”/news”,”additional_properties”:{“original”:{“parent”:{“AmpNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”BottomNav”:null,”TopNavRedesign”:null,”SectionMap”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”LoggedOutMenu”:null,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”TopNav”:null,”TopicsBar”:null,”ComposerNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”site”:{“site_url”:”https://www.ajc.com/news/”,”section_comments_enabled”:”Yes”,”site_description”:”Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles – Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”site_title”:”Atlanta GA News | Top News Page”},”navigation”:{“nav_title”:”News”},”inactive”:false,”node_type”:”section”,”_website”:”ajc”,”name”:”News”,”Sponsor”:{“sponsor_url_open_new_tab”:”true”,”sponsor_desktop_banner”:””,”sponsor_mobile_banner”:””,”sponsor_url”:””},”_id”:”/news”,”ancestors”:{“AmpNav”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”default”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”BottomNav”:[],”TopNavRedesign”:[],”SectionMap”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”LoggedOutMenu”:[],”MainMenuRedesign2021″:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”TopicsBar”:[]},”order”:{“AmpNav”:1001,”default”:1001,”SectionMap”:1018,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:1001,”ComposerNav”:1135}}},”_website_section_id”:”ajc./news”,”type”:”section”,”version”:”0.6.0″}],”primary_section”:{“path”:”/news”,”name”:”News”},”tags”:[{“text”:”teamjanel”},{“text”:”reportforamerica”},{“text”:”immigrantcommunities”}]},”type”:”story”,”last_updated_date”:”2021-08-21T14:07:27.783Z”,”canonical_url”:”/news/advocates-mobilize-to-help-venezuelans-in-ga-file-for-temporary-protected-status/5K6X7SPZJZFKPHCH2E5S2LYCN4/”,”promo_items”:{“basic”:{“credits”:{“affiliation”:[{“name”:”TNS”,”type”:”author”}],”by”:[{“name”:”Daniel A. 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Blue moon tomorrow night and Sunday night…enjoy!

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Metro Atlanta Region: Check out Georgia DOT’s Weekend Construction Report! – https://t.co/tVI8uAJr2O

— Georgia DOT ATL (@GDOTATL) August 19, 2021nn”,”_id”:”https://twitter.com/GDOTATL/status/1428447094713593863″,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”ND3TUCSPZNDSPDU25IJHWCSJ3Q”},”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”height”:null},”type”:”oembed_response”},{“_id”:”C3TCJHWDNZBWXM724KMLSPZEDM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[]},”type”:”text”,”content”:”In Fulton County, lanes will be closed on I-85 overnight between the Brookwood interchange with I-75 and Clairmont Road for restriping. Also in Fulton, ramps will be closed on I-75 at Jonesboro Road for the installation of wrong-way driving deterrents.”},{“_id”:”FWKYZSKVCVDFRKQT6YMY3DFVRM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[]},”type”:”text”,”content”:”In Clayton County, many lanes around the I-75 junction with I-285 will be closed all weekend for the construction of additional traffic lanes at the busy interchange.”},{“_id”:”XQOZHH5EYBA2PD4ZZJJJTIMBIM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[]},”type”:”text”,”content”:”As usual, watch out for lane closures and changes to traffic patterns near the junction of Ga. 400 and I-285 for the ongoing Transform 285/400 project. “},{“_id”:”HNQKIFBOVJGZDLMSCSAGPTARNY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[]},”type”:”text”,”content”:”» For a detailed forecast, visit The Atlanta Journal-Constitution weather page.”},{“_id”:”6OIA5YSGHNFEPJTTWORHCIWWLM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[]},”type”:”text”,”content”:”» For updated traffic information, listen to News 95.5 and AM 750 WSB and follow @ajcwsbtraffic on Twitter.”},{“_id”:”NMOPG6I7BNAIFMALGF5PO3LALM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[]},”type”:”text”,”content”:”» Download The Atlanta Journal-Constitution app for weather alerts on-the-go.”}],”display_date”:”2021-08-21T01:52:13.204Z”,”headlines”:{“basic”:”SATURDAY’S WEATHER-TRAFFIC: Hot and humid summer weekend ahead”},”first_publish_date”:”2021-08-21T01:52:13.204Z”,”taxonomy”:{“sections”:[{“path”:”/news”,”parent”:{“default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”_website”:”ajc”,”parent_id”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”name”:”News”,”description”:”Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles – Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”_id”:”/news”,”additional_properties”:{“original”:{“parent”:{“AmpNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”BottomNav”:null,”TopNavRedesign”:null,”SectionMap”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”LoggedOutMenu”:null,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”TopNav”:null,”TopicsBar”:null,”ComposerNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”site”:{“site_url”:”https://www.ajc.com/news/”,”section_comments_enabled”:”Yes”,”site_description”:”Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles – Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”site_title”:”Atlanta GA News | Top News Page”},”navigation”:{“nav_title”:”News”},”inactive”:false,”node_type”:”section”,”_website”:”ajc”,”name”:”News”,”Sponsor”:{“sponsor_url_open_new_tab”:”true”,”sponsor_desktop_banner”:””,”sponsor_mobile_banner”:””,”sponsor_url”:””},”_id”:”/news”,”ancestors”:{“AmpNav”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”default”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”BottomNav”:[],”TopNavRedesign”:[],”SectionMap”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”LoggedOutMenu”:[],”MainMenuRedesign2021″:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”TopicsBar”:[]},”order”:{“AmpNav”:1001,”default”:1001,”SectionMap”:1018,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:1001,”ComposerNav”:1135}}},”_website_section_id”:”ajc./news”,”type”:”section”,”version”:”0.6.0″},{“path”:”/atlanta-weather”,”parent”:{“default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”_website”:”ajc”,”parent_id”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”name”:”Atlanta Weather”,”description”:”Atlanta Weather today, updated Atlanta weather radar, weather Forecast, updates and warnings for Metro Atlanta. 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After interviewing witnesses, investigators determined the fatal shooting was the result of a marijuana sale gone wrong, Ortega said. According to police, both victims came to the shopping center together to “carry out a drug transaction involving a large amount of marijuana.””},{“_id”:”HWBGVFSCA5EN7DWDSREGAW4SKI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629497732415},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Investigators are asking anyone with information to contact Sandy Springs Police Detective Pearson at JPearson@SandySpringsGa.Gov or by phone at 770-551-6939.”},{“_id”:”IYXZHO24V5GPDG344C5TBR4DLQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629497732416},”type”:”text”,”content”:”— Please return to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for updates.”},{“_id”:”L2PWF66AFBA5HHFKKCYXOA6FVQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629497732417},”type”:”text”,”content”:”
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Since the beginning of the year, more than 1,209 guns have been stolen out of cars in the City of Atlanta. Irresponsible gun owners, & criminals with guns make our city unsafe. Always remove guns from your vehicle or secure your weapon using a gun safe/cable gun lock. #SafetyTips pic.twitter.com/LiqtSecnt1

— Atlanta Police Department (@Atlanta_Police) August 9, 2021nn”,”_id”:”https://twitter.com/Atlanta_Police/status/1424819442043793408″,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:1629643953113},”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”height”:null},”type”:”oembed_response”},{“_id”:”DD5STSXL4ZENXLG7EOZWUZ6YCE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629495488958},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Last month, an off-duty DeKalb officer had his gun stolen during a smash-and-grab at a Buckhead shopping center off West Paces Ferry Road. The officer said he returned to his car about 3 a.m. on July 18 and found his passenger window had been shattered.”},{“_id”:”6QUAQTM625FQLN6DYDRVW6NAWQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629211935032},”type”:”text”,”content”:”His 9 mm Glock, which was stored in a holster underneath the driver’s seat, was gone, according to police. Officers recovered three fingerprints from the officer’s Nissan, one that belonged to him and two more belonging to possible suspects. The officer notified his supervisors that his service weapon had been taken, and the gun’s serial number was entered into a stolen weapons database.”},{“_id”:”XPQXRANQFFAPBOXOXEM3O477MQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629487950997},”type”:”text”,”content”:”It’s unclear if the officers were targeted or if they face disciplinary action for leaving their guns unattended. The Atlanta police officer was still on active duty as of Friday afternoon, a department spokesman said. 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The Atlanta Police Department has investigated more than 100 homicides this year.”},{“_id”:”KJZ3VIQF3ZDYNIPICLCD4FICRE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629388511288},”type”:”text”,”content”:”While not all guns used in violent crimes turn out to be stolen, many of them are, Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant told reporters during an interview last month at APD headquarters. One complicating factor, he said, is that not all gun thefts are reported to the police. If a gun owner doesn’t have their serial number written down, it’s nearly impossible to track that weapon later.”},{“_id”:”QQVBPDU7ZNC3NPGWYESEFHQOX4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629495488964},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Authorities throughout the metro area have grappled with the issue.”},{“_id”:”ZHY3KI22QVE5TD264DHJZI2CYI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629211935034},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“If you’re not going to take your firearms out of your car, at least know the make, model and serial number so we can record it when it does get stolen,” said Paulding County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Ashley Henson. “How many Glock 19s are there out in the world? If you don’t have that serial number, it’s gone. 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When he returned to his truck at the Home2Suites on Peachtree Street, his five pistols, three rifles and two shotguns were long gone.”},{“_id”:”TM4H6W277VAODC3Q7YIWPARRUM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629487951006},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Authorities released surveillance video of the break-in and offered a cash reward, but no arrests have been announced.”},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”address”:{},”syndication”:{},”caption”:”Police say a man stole 10 guns that were left in the bed of a pickup truck in the parking garage of a Midtown hotel.”,”source”:{“system”:”photo center”,”name”:”AJC”,”edit_url”:””,”source_type”:”staff”,”additional_properties”:{“editor”:”photo center”}},”taxonomy”:{“associated_tasks”:[]},”type”:”image”,”distributor”:{“mode”:”reference”,”reference_id”:”8aec2b8c-455c-4816-903d-79fc8fdf8019″},”version”:”0.10.3″,”url”:”https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/IEHTGXWGHRHZLAATKBIXYPCCIY.JPG”,”licensable”:false,”credits”:{“affiliation”:[{“name”:”Atlanta Police Department”,”type”:”author”}],”by”:[{“name”:”Atlanta Police Department”,”type”:”author”,”byline”:”Atlanta Police Department”}]},”subtitle”:”Gun thefts”,”width”:1053,”creditIPTC”:”Atlanta Police Department”,”_id”:”IEHTGXWGHRHZLAATKBIXYPCCIY”,”additional_properties”:{“fullSizeResizeUrl”:”/resizer/XECdfVdHlCLlC7i6xScb3dAhuUA=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/IEHTGXWGHRHZLAATKBIXYPCCIY.JPG”,”owner”:”shaddi.abusaid@ajc.com”,”comments”:[],”proxyUrl”:”/resizer/XECdfVdHlCLlC7i6xScb3dAhuUA=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/IEHTGXWGHRHZLAATKBIXYPCCIY.JPG”,”originalUrl”:”https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/IEHTGXWGHRHZLAATKBIXYPCCIY.JPG”,”published”:true,”resizeUrl”:”/resizer/XECdfVdHlCLlC7i6xScb3dAhuUA=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/IEHTGXWGHRHZLAATKBIXYPCCIY.JPG”,”ingestionMethod”:”manual”,”thumbnailResizeUrl”:”/resizer/dfLeMqWKtbY4daIJQ0ZSkInRM8s=/300×0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/IEHTGXWGHRHZLAATKBIXYPCCIY.JPG”,”version”:0,”originalName”:”Midtown gun theft.JPG”,”mime_type”:”image/jpeg”,”restricted”:false,”template_id”:594,”galleries”:[],”_id”:”Q5W7NOHEIVDKPL6BI2ENLI4SJY”},”created_date”:”2021-08-20T14:00:58Z”,”last_updated_date”:”2021-08-20T14:00:58Z”,”height”:630,”image_type”:”photograph”},{“_id”:”SW63CMR7XBA6ZPN2MMIOCLYMVI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629471221414},”type”:”text”,”content”:”In Gwinnett County, police say more than 100 guns have been taken from parked cars since the start of the year. Most metro Atlanta departments track the number of stolen guns and the number of car break-ins, but those crimes frequently overlap. A gun left inside a vehicle is an easy target, Gwinnett police Cpl. Ryan Winderweedle said.”},{“_id”:”5XYM4L5JYJDC5EYN67KMIAREKU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629211935036},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“We got a lot of these kinds of thefts at gyms, in parks and outside hotels,” Winderweedle said. “They’re going quick. They’ll try to hit as many cars as possible.””},{“_id”:”PE5OVROFJVDUFF5BE5Q4YHBTUM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629295543398},”type”:”text”,”content”:”If a gun must be left in the car, gun owners are urged to lock them in glove boxes or use gun safes and cables that attach to the vehicle, making firearms much tougher to steal.”},{“_id”:”HRCIDI2MIJB2LE3VCPKQDZXX5E”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629295543399},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“If they’re going to spend a lot of time on it, it’s far more likely they’ll be seen by somebody,” Winderweedle said. “At minimum, lock your car, because they can just open the door and take whatever they want.””},{“_id”:”BQ65XR253FDNREWAWLLAD6Q35Y”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629310716317},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The Cobb County Police Department has investigated about 1,300 entering auto cases since January, data show, but it wasn’t immediately clear how many guns were stolen from those cars. The department tracks gun thefts separately, and said there have been at least 300 instances of guns being stolen since the start of the year. In some cases, however, multiple guns are taken at once. Marietta police are also seeing an increase in the number of guns being lifted from cars. According to the department, 48 firearms were taken from vehicles in 2019, 67 were taken in 2020 and 55 have been reported stolen so far in 2021 with more than four months left in the year.”},{“_id”:”HVXRFVAKUBC6JMNCYPL7DHFRM4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629310716318},”type”:”text”,”content”:”In Cherokee County, at least 19 guns have been stolen from cars since January, according to the sheriff’s office. There were at least 35 instances of guns being taken from cars in 2020 and at least 31 in 2019, data show. Like Cobb, some of those break-ins resulted in multiple guns being taken.”},{“_id”:”XOZQ36QNBVALZMH2P62MJCS5WI”,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”XS23U3BBEVGRXGO46ZMSZIPJPE”},”type”:”interstitial_link”,”content”:”2 vehicles, 4 guns stolen overnight in string of Cherokee County auto break-ins”,”url”:”https://www.ajc.com/news/crime–law/vehicles-guns-stolen-overnight-string-cherokee-county-auto-break-ins/zn5k8dTRgDpRoZwsr8KDZO/”},{“_id”:”AGDSKHWTBBDZHBNPYIIYR6DUW4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629310716320},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The majority of entering auto suspects are trying to be discreet, police say, and typically won’t smash a window to get inside a vehicle. Simply locking an unattended vehicle is often the best way to avoid being targeted, departments say.”},{“_id”:”WDOMLRZLDBHXZD22BAPAMZ64YU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629295543402},”type”:”text”,”content”:”While smash-and-grabs are an issue in some areas, Duluth police say nearly all of their entering auto cases involve unlocked cars.”},{“_id”:”F5MP5YLNSZEM3IF2Q3FKOSLZPI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629295543403},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“We normally never have actual break-ins,” Duluth police spokesman Officer Ted Sadowski said. “Most of the time here, it’s them checking each door in each driveway, and they just kind of keep going.””},{“_id”:”BE6X32ZI5JDJZCJAQ7S55HXYAE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629310716323},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The department regularly reminds residents to lock their doors and bring their guns and valuables inside overnight. When it comes to self-defense, Sadowski said, owning a firearm doesn’t help much if it’s sitting out in the driveway or inside a thief’s backpack.”},{“_id”:”YCNOIU3Q35EK3H5HNKABSQNXKE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629482885067},”type”:”text”,”content”:”No one’s immune from smash-and-grab incidents, as Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat can attest. The lawman had his car broken into recently while dining with his wife and some friends at a Mexican restaurant on Howell Mill Road. When the Labats returned to their car, they found that the back window had been smashed in and someone had rifled around inside.”},{“_id”:”GWQZEM4YSNCJHBS6FX54JVZFDI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629388511286},”type”:”text”,”content”:”There were no weapons in the car at the time of the break-in, and that the only thing missing was a tote bag with a few miscellaneous personal belongings, they said.”},{“_id”:”DN26QFOZPFE35KC2GWYXUGAVHM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629388511287},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“I have vaults in the car, but I didn’t have any weapons in there because I took it inside,” the sheriff said.”},{“_id”:”ZHMQA6XBXJBLFHGEQIA7ETJETA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629578410325},”type”:”text”,”content”:”MORE DETAILS”},{“_id”:”6GRLV3QZAZDAFICHEG76RTFZSY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629578410326},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Atlanta police said at least 1,251 guns were reported stolen from cars and trucks since the start of the year. 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n The Imperfect Alibin The forgotten suspect, the DNA and the church murders that haunted a detectiven

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Chapter 1
A Stranger in the Vestibule

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On a rainy October afternoon, the old detective sits in a park near the Satilla River in southeast Georgia. He studies a sheet of paper. The page is an artifact from the case file of one of the worst things that ever happened in rural Camden County: A white man walked into a church in 1985 and fatally shot a black couple.

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Not finding their killer is the biggest failure of Butch Kennedy’s life.

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He was the chief sheriff’s deputy, and the murders were not only his to solve, but personal. He knew and respected the victims. Harold Swain, 66, was a deacon, a volunteer firefighter, the de facto spokesman for the area’s black community. Thelma Swain, 63, took the minutes at church mission meetings, doted on the couple’s adopted daughter and had a heart for people in need.

nnCoalition pushes licenses for unauthorized immigrants in GeorgianThelma Swain and her husband, Harold Swain, were killed in 1985 at Rising Daughter Baptist Church in Camden County. (WJXT-TV)nn

Kennedy worked to solve the couple’s murders for seven years. After he left the sheriff’s office, another detective helped convict a man who says he is innocent. Dennis Perry is serving two life sentences.

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Kennedy believes the wrong man is in prison. So do at least two other investigators who worked the case. Because Kennedy was initially the lead investigator, he blames himself for how the case ended. He prays for God to show him a way to set things right.

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“I want to know who did this before I die,” the 74-year-old says. “You’re supposed to solve these things. You’re supposed to make them right. You feel so bad for the family. You let everybody down.”

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Rain pelts the roof of the park pavilion as Kennedy examines the paper. His voice is thin and raspy, and he reads to himself in a whisper.

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The sheet of paper is one I’ve chosen after reading thousands of pages of police and court documents and interviewing dozens of people over the past several months. It contains details about the alibi of a man who allegedly confessed. The alibi led Kennedy and his partner to drop the man as a suspect.

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Kennedy places the paper on the table and sets his blue eyes on my face as I go line by line, telling him what I’ve learned, information that will soon change everything.

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When I finish, Kennedy’s eyes get big, and he opens his mouth, but all that comes out is a loud, sickened sound: “Oh, oh, oh, oh.” The air from his lips catches the edge of the paper. The sheet lifts from the table and dances away.

nnButch Kennedy was 40 years old when he became the lead investigator on the church murders.nButch Kennedy was 40 years old when he became the lead investigator on the church murders. (Tyson Horne / tyson.horne@ajc.com)nn

CAMDEN COUNTY IS ALMOST IN FLORIDA, almost in the Atlantic, almost swallowed by marshland teeming with fiddler crabs that perish in the beaks of whimbrels and the mouths of baby alligators that grow mighty and compete with fishermen for bigger catch. Most people live on the east side of the county, closer to the jobs at the naval base and the shrimping business around Brunswick.

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If you leave the coast and drive west, passing Fancy Bluff Creek and the fast-food chains clustered around I-95, you might notice the smell of salt falling from the air, the land growing drier and harder. After 14 miles, you arrive in Spring Bluff, an area of mobile homes, aging ranch styles and piney woods.

nnThe store where a church witness ran for help still stands.nnThe store where a church witness ran for help still stands. (Ryon Horne / rhorne@ajc.com)nn

Spring Bluff is one of those places that used to be. There used to be a place called Reed’s Store where people bought cigarettes and Cokes. There used to be a place called Choo Choo BBQ. Everybody used to know everybody.

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Rising Daughter Baptist Church sits along U.S. 17, backed by woods, with a big churchyard featuring a small cemetery. It’s always been a predominantly black church, and the Swains were among its most active members.

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Perry’s conviction came nearly 20 years after their deaths. Last summer, the Georgia Innocence Project and the King & Spalding law firm, which took the case pro bono, filed a new petition seeking Perry’s release. The filing is based largely on evidence discovered during production of the podcast “Undisclosed.”

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The petition accuses prosecutors of withholding information and evidence from Perry’s trial attorneys. For instance, the prosecution didn’t disclose that the star witness against Perry got a $12,000 reward for her testimony. The filing accuses the state of losing evidence that could’ve helped prove Perry’s innocence, such as documentation showing he had a strong alibi.

nnDennis Perry is serving two life sentences.nDennis Perry is serving two life sentences. (Georgia Department of Corrections)nn

The court filing focuses on an alternative suspect, a former drug trafficker whom Kennedy and others long suspected of committing the murders. The podcast also focused on the former drug trafficker. Neither dug deeply into the other man who, police records say, suggested to at least two people at two different times that he committed the murders.

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Realizing no one had checked into his alleged confessions and alibi since 1986, I decided to try.

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What I found stunned Kennedy and his partner, as well as Perry’s attorneys and many others. Within months, the new information led to another revelation — the most dramatic development in the case’s 35-year history.

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Authorities in Camden County long have said the case is over, settled, solved.

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It seems they were wrong.

nnThe vestibule where Harold and Thelma Swain fell dead.nThe vestibule where Harold and Thelma Swain fell dead. (Hyosub Shin / hyosub.shin@ajc.com) nn

THE MOON WANED ON THAT BLACK-DARK NIGHT. As the gunman approached, a single bulb above the front door lit the churchyard in soft yellow. He might’ve heard muffled chatter about salvation as he entered the vestibule. A dozen people were in the sanctuary for a mission meeting and Bible study.

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It was Monday, March 11, 1985, about 8:45 p.m. A woman who had to leave early was first to encounter the visitor, a white man who appeared to be in his 20s with light brown or dirty blond hair, collar- or shoulder-length. He said he wanted to talk to someone and pointed at the only man there.

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Harold Swain, a big guy who’d been a pulpwooder, went to greet the stranger in the vestibule, a small room separated from the sanctuary by double doors.

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Moments later, the women in the sanctuary heard a struggle and four gunshots. Thelma Swain ran to help her husband, who had been wounded in four places.

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The visitor fired one more shot from his .25-caliber handgun, striking Thelma Swain.

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One woman fainted and fell between two pews. The others, including a 7-year-old girl, scrambled out of the sanctuary and into the kitchen or the pastor’s study. Someone tried to use the phone to call for help, but the line was dead. The Lord knows how long they waited in silence, praying, before Marjorie Moore got a burst of courage.

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First she needed a weapon.

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She grabbed a broom.

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Then she ran outside, where she noticed an unfamiliar car, brownish and sporty, parked at the edge of the yard. Maybe the shooter was inside reloading, she thought. She dropped the broom, jumped into her car and sped toward the convenience store down the road.

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A clerk called police while the owner drove Moore back to the church. The car she’d seen was gone.

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So was the killer.

nnThe investigators methodically documented the crime scene.nThe investigators methodically documented the crime scene. (Case file)nn

BUTCH KENNEDY, A VIETNAM VET, was 40 at the time and had become a deputy because his dad was a deputy. He was chief deputy, as his dad had been in Telfair County, where Kennedy grew up in an employee suite under the second-floor jail.

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Between his eyes, he had a scar from when a suspect smashed a beer bottle on his face. In the pants pocket of his uniform, he carried a silver coin embossed with the outline of a fish, a symbol for Jesus.

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Kennedy felt a man was only as good as the way he served others. Typically, he thought he was pretty good. He’d worked a few homicides before. But when he arrived at the church, he felt a pounding fear of failure.

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The scene was surreal, shocking. The Swains lay faceup, side by side, soaked in blood. Thelma’s left hand touched the back of her husband’s head, like she was comforting him.

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Kennedy’s partner in the investigation was a sharp-tongued GBI agent and fellow Vietnam veteran named Joe Gregory. When he arrived, Kennedy took him to the bodies. They noticed a pair of glasses, inches from the Swains.

nnA pair of broken glasses with pitted lenses and mismatched earpieces was found near the Swains’ bodies. Investigators believed they belonged to the killer.nA pair of broken glasses with pitted lenses and mismatched earpieces was found near the Swains’ bodies. Investigators believed they belonged to the killer. (Case file)nn

None of the church witnesses knew whose they were. They didn’t agree on whether the killer had been wearing glasses. But here was a pair. They were distinctive, too: thick lenses, pitted and worn, with residue of transmission fluid on them. The temple pieces didn’t match. Whether they’d fallen off his face or from his pocket, the killer must’ve dropped them, the detectives agreed.

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A few days later, the sheriff’s office brought in a sketch artist who sat down with four witnesses from the church who said they had seen the gunman’s face. Each woman’s memory produced a sketch, and afterward the artist combined all four into a composite drawing. The artist told Kennedy the witnesses were generally happy with the composite because it captured some of what they all remembered. But one woman didn’t think it looked like the killer. Still, it appeared in newspapers, on TV and on the walls of gas stations.

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The detectives were bombarded with leads. Men who wore glasses held special interest. Kennedy and Gregory checked their prescriptions against the glasses found at the scene. None ever matched.

nnFour church witnesses who said they saw the killer each helped an artist make a sketch of the man. The four sketches became a composite that was featured on TV and in newspapers and hung on the walls of gas stations.nFour church witnesses who said they saw the killer each helped an artist make a sketch of the man. The four sketches became a composite that was featured on TV and in newspapers and hung on the walls of gas stations. (Case file)nn

Motive was elusive, too.

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A grudge against Harold Swain? Who didn’t like the man who helped neighbors with yardwork and waved when you passed him on the road? Plus, witnesses said Harold didn’t appear to know the intruder.

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Racism? That seemed unlikely to many locals, considering how beloved the Swains were among both black and white residents.

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Robbery? Harold still had $300 in the pocket of his blue jeans when authorities arrived. Had the gunman gone to the church to rob congregants and aborted the plan when Harold resisted?

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The detectives soon would come to believe that Harold was the target of a hit job.

nnJoe Gregory was the GBI agent who helped clear Dennis Perry as a suspect in 1988.nJoe Gregory was the GBI agent who helped clear Dennis Perry as a suspect in 1988. (Contributed)nn

THE DETECTIVES PRAYED in their windowless office. They prayed driving to interrogations. They prayed when they woke in the morning and placed their feet on the ground.

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Gregory was a faithful man. Kennedy didn’t believe prayer worked, but he grew up Baptist and learned that praying is what you do when you feel helpless.

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Kennedy thought often of the crime scene. He could remember how the sanctuary smelled of the women’s perfume. He couldn’t stop seeing Harold and Thelma’s bodies on the gray tile floor.

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Sometimes the detective drove to the church and looked around, thinking. One day he parked the car in the yard and started to cry. He climbed out and paced in the grass, trying to compose himself so he could get back to work.

nnThe Atlanta Constitution covered the murders in 1985.nThe Atlanta Constitution covered the murders in 1985.nn

IN JULY, FOUR MONTHS AFTER THE CRIME, Kennedy and Gregory arrived at the Telfair County jail to talk with an inmate who said he had information about the murders.

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The man had been arrested with two buddies after a state trooper found a machine gun in the trunk of their car. Police said the men were tied to a drug-trafficking operation.

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The inmate told detectives that not long after the murders, he’d had a party at his house in the Florida Panhandle. Donnie Barrentine, who was in the jail with him on the machine gun charge, had drunkenly waved around a 9 mm handgun, the inmate said, and claimed to be God.

nnDonnie Barrentine was an early suspect after allegedly confessing at a party.nDonnie Barrentine was an early suspect after allegedly confessing at a party. (Case file)nn

God can give and God can take away, the inmate remembered him saying. Then Barrentine said he’d taken something, according to the inmate: the lives of two black people in a church.

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The inmate, who spoke with the investigators multiple times, said Barrentine later told him why he killed the couple: The Swains’ son-in-law owed money to a drug trafficker. The hit was supposed to bring the son-in-law out of hiding. Or something like that. The story changed as the inmate said he talked further with Barrentine at the jail.

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But in the shifting words, Kennedy thought he heard some truth.

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The Swains had no son-in-law, but their adopted daughter’s stepfather was under federal indictment — and soon to be convicted — for importing marijuana from Jamaica. The feds had hidden him out once when he turned government witness. (The stepfather died in 2014; the Swains’ daughter, who was 20 when they were murdered, couldn’t be reached for comment.)

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Kennedy and Gregory found other witnesses who said they heard Barrentine talk about the murders at the party. They also checked out his alibi — he’d been working 245 miles away in Marianna, Florida, on the day of the shooting — but the detectives drove the distance and believed he could’ve made it to the church in time to commit the murders. It wasn’t clear whether Barrentine had access to a car like the one seen at the church.

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His shoulder-length brown hair matched the description of the gunman. But he maintained his innocence, and the district attorney said the investigators needed more to charge him.

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As months slid by without an arrest, Kennedy says, his boss pressured him: Where are you on the Swain case? I’m going to have to replace you.

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Though the sheriff’s words stung, nothing could hurt more than Kennedy’s thoughts about himself. Privately, Kennedy wondered if the biggest problem with the Swain case was him.

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Chapter 2
The Glasses and a Confession

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Kennedy didn’t like to be too seduced by any one theory. But he felt attracted to the inmate’s story about Barrentine. Feuding drug traffickers in southeast Georgia. An attack on a snitch’s kin because he was in the witness protection program. A man claiming to be God murdering people in a house of God. And others had corroborated what the inmate said: that Barrentine boasted about committing the murders.

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But then Kennedy heard a new story about another man.

nnErik Sparre, seen here circa 1986, was an early suspect but had an alibi.nErik Sparre, seen here circa 1986, was an early suspect but had an alibi. (Case file)nn

Erik Sparre grew up in Brunswick, but he’d spent a lot of time around Spring Bluff. Kennedy thought of him as a hellion. He had allegedly pulled a rifle on a black or Asian man at Choo Choo BBQ and kicked the windshield out of his car, according to a police document. During a DUI arrest, he threatened to bloody a Glynn County police officer who he called a “n—– loving whore,” though the report says he wasn’t charged with the threat. Kennedy had arrested Sparre for allegedly beating his first wife, Emily Head Sparre, before she said to drop the charges.

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In March 1986, about a year after the Swains’ murders, Emily was no longer married to Sparre, and Kennedy learned Sparre had been harassing and threatening her family.

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While Sparre was on the phone with Emily’s twin brother, the family recorded the call. They let Kennedy hear it, according to a report.

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“I’m the motherf—– that killed the two n—— in that church,” the document quotes the caller saying, “and I’m going to kill you and the whole damn family if I have to do it in church.”

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The family said the voice was Sparre’s.

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Kennedy spoke with Emily at her parents’ home in Spring Bluff.

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Emily, who said Sparre hated black people, recalled him leaving home one morning wearing dark clothing. The next morning, he returned wearing a white shirt. She said this was during the week of the murders, and she left him a week later.

nnEmily Head, Sparre’s first ex-wife, helped make him a suspect.nEmily Head, Sparre’s first ex-wife, helped make him a suspect. (GBI)nn

Kennedy knew the killer had worn dark clothes, including a shirt that lost a couple of buttons in the struggle with Harold Swain. Sparre also had collar-length brown hair.

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And what about the glasses found at the crime scene?

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Emily said Sparre had lost his glasses sometime before the murders. “He got three pairs of glasses from his father,” Kennedy later wrote in a document. “Erik Sparre made one pair of glasses out of the three pairs. … She stated that he is a welder and had worked for a trucking service as a mechanic.”

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Kennedy knew this could explain the condition of the glasses: the marks on the lenses, the transmission fluid, the mismatched temple pieces.

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He got in his cruiser and drove toward the sheriff’s office. On U.S. 17, he passed Rising Daughter on his left. Whenever he went by the church, he said a prayer for God to help him solve the case. Was God delivering now?

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At the sheriff’s office, Kennedy grabbed the glasses from the scene and two unrelated pairs. The detectives had so far kept information about the glasses close to the vest.

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Back at Emily’s parents’ house, Kennedy asked if any of the three pairs looked like Sparre’s.

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Emily picked the pair found near the bodies.

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WITHIN HOURS, KENNEDY SOUGHT A WARRANT to search the house where Erik Sparre lived with his parents in Brunswick. At 4:30 p.m. on March 10, 1986, one day before the first anniversary of the murders, he and Gregory entered the home looking for a handgun like the killer used, and anything else that might link Sparre to the crime.

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They found nothing.

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The detectives were unable to link Sparre to a car like the one at the crime scene. They needed to know if he had an alibi.

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Gregory got a number for the manager at the Winn-Dixie where Sparre was said to have worked at the time of the murders. Was Sparre on the job that night, Gregory asked. The manager, who identified himself as Donald A. Mobley, said he’d have to check with headquarters. It’d been a whole year.

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Two weeks later, Gregory’s phone rang. It was a man who said he was Mobley. He said Sparre clocked in at 3:06 p.m. on the day of the murders and clocked out the next morning at 6:41 a.m.

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“I have also talked with employees who are still working here who worked with Sparre that night,” Gregory quoted Mobley as saying in the report. “They also confirmed that Sparre was in the store on that evening.”

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Gregory didn’t meet Mobley in person, but the call was good enough for him and Kennedy. Sparre’s alibi had checked out. The investigators wrote him off as a suspect. His name never came up in their files again.

nnThe alibi would later come into question.nThe alibi would later come into question. (Case file)nn

A YEAR TURNED TO TWO, THEN THREE, and the detectives felt discouraged. Having leads that went nowhere felt bad, but having no leads at all felt worse.

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They were grateful even for tips they found flimsy.

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One such tip produced the name of Dennis Perry.

nnDennis Perry, circa 1979.nDennis Perry, circa 1979. (Family Photo)nn

Perry was 26, a long-haired country guy who liked to fish and deer hunt. He had lived for a time in Spring Bluff. His grandfather had a chronic condition, and Perry helped care for him at his grandparents’ home on Dover Bluff Road near Rising Daughter Baptist Church.

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Four months before the murders, Perry had fallen out of a tree stand while deer hunting and fractured a vertebra. His mom had taken him to her house in Jonesboro, near Atlanta, to recuperate.

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Kennedy had never heard of Perry until the tipster called to allege Perry had a problem with Harold Swain. The detectives found no evidence to support the story. They also learned Perry had no car and didn’t wear glasses.

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They still wanted to see if he had an alibi. They talked to Perry’s family and learned he worked at a concrete company in College Park at the time of the murders. Gregory says the boss confirmed Perry had worked that day, late into the afternoon. Kennedy and Gregory believed Perry wouldn’t have had enough time to drive the 260-odd miles and make it to Rising Daughter at 8:45 p.m.

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Even so, Kennedy and Gregory put together a photo spread with the faces of Perry and five other men. They showed it to the woman who had spoken with the gunman in the church. She didn’t recognize anyone.

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THE CHURCH MURDERS GAINED NATIONAL ATTENTION in November 1988 with a segment on TV’s “Unsolved Mysteries.” “The quiet sanctity of Rising Daughter Church was violated by the brutal double murder,” said the velvet voice of the show’s host.

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Kennedy and Gregory took part in the filming, doing reenactments of the crime scene and the investigation. Gregory said on the show that the glasses from the church must’ve belonged to the killer.

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During the debut broadcast, the detectives were horrified to see the show’s host holding the glasses with his bare hands. They hadn’t realized someone sent physical evidence to the producers.

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Minutes after the show concluded, tips flooded in from all over the country.

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The detectives spent long days chasing dead-end leads. And on some nights, Kennedy stopped to buy a six-pack of Bud Light on the way home. The chief deputy knew he couldn’t get drunk in case he had to go out on a call. He sat on his porch alone and drank just a can or two, enough to feel a little lighter, light enough to keep going. He stared out into the dark in silence.

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Chapter 3
Convicted by ‘The Bundy Method’

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In the summer of 1992, Butch Kennedy cleaned out his office and walked away with a terrible feeling: He would never be a cop again.

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Kennedy says Sheriff Bill Smith fired him. Smith has said Kennedy resigned. Either way, the job that gave Kennedy purpose was gone.

nnSherriff Bill Smith hired a former deputy to take up the Swain murder investigation.nSherriff Bill Smith hired a former deputy to take up the Swain murder investigation. (WJXT-TV)nn

He took a job as a tax collector. He thought every day of how he’d failed in the Swain case, how he’d failed as a deputy. He figured he’d fail at the new job, too. After eight solid years of unanswered prayers, he learned drinking is something you can do when you feel helpless. So he drank.

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Alcohol didn’t consume his life, but it dulled the regret and disappointment that never left his mind.

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Six years later, the sheriff rehired a former deputy, Dale Bundy, to work the murder case. (Smith, who is no longer sheriff, declined to comment.) The sheriff gave him a one-year contract, with no guarantee of renewal, to work exclusively on the Swain murders, which had confounded investigators for 13 years. Gregory, who was still the GBI’s lead on the case, had recently broken his back and neck in a car wreck. Bundy, 50, would do the job alone.

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Bundy declined the AJC’s requests for an interview, saying he’d been treated unfairly by the Georgia Innocence Project as it fought Perry’s conviction. But I obtained his more than two-hour interview with the podcast “Undisclosed.”

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“I’ve been made to look like just a horrible person that framed this poor innocent man,” Bundy said. “I put a lot of my time in this case — I was very careful with it. The last thing I’d want to do is to put someone in prison that I didn’t think was guilty.”

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The unedited tape of that interview, as well as Bundy’s trial testimony, details how he built the case against Perry.

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He started by re-interviewing the church witnesses.

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Had they heard anything new in the last 13 years?

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CORA FISHER SAT WITH BUNDY on her screened-in porch days after he began work. She was the church member who had fainted when the gunman fired. But the 66-year-old had always said she got a good look at his face.

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Cora, Bundy asked, do you think you know who killed Harold and Thelma Swain?

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I don’t think anything, Cora said. I know who killed Harold and Thelma Swain.

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Fisher told Bundy she’d learned who the killer was in 1988. Shortly after “Unsolved Mysteries” aired, a white woman came to her home and showed her a photograph of a man and asked whether he was the gunman.

nnThis photo of Dennis Perry was shown to Cora Fisher, who said she recognized him as the killer.nThis photo of Dennis Perry was shown to Cora Fisher, who said she recognized him as the killer. (Case file)nn

Fisher took one look and fainted.

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Yes, that was the man.

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Fisher was too scared to give the killer’s name to Bundy. But she offered a hint: The man’s grandfather used to live in a white house on Dover Bluff Road.

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Bundy realized she was talking about Dennis Perry.

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It’s unclear whether Bundy knew Kennedy and Gregory had cleared Perry 10 years earlier. Nearly all documentation from their efforts to investigate Perry is gone from the case file, though no one can — or will — explain why.

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Bundy told “Undisclosed” he didn’t record interviews, and he testified that he took no notes in his investigation. Instead, he said he remembered what people told him and sat down once he’d completed most interviews and wrote a case report. He wrote the report on this case five months after the first interview with Fisher.

nnnJane Beaver set the case against Dennis Perry into motion.nJane Beaver set the case against Dennis Perry into motion. (Obituary photo)nn

THREE WEEKS INTO HIS INVESTIGATION, Bundy found Jane Beaver, the woman who’d shown Cora Fisher the picture.

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Come in, Beaver said at her trailer door, I will tell you what you need to know.

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Beaver was 59 and worked two decades as a clerk and assistant in the accounting department at the University of Georgia’s research outpost on Sapelo Island. After a layoff in 1991, she started a home business, Ceramics by Jane.

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She knew Perry, she told Bundy, because he’d dated her daughter. After they broke up, Perry stopped by their home. It was about three weeks before the murders. Beaver said Perry told her during that visit that he had asked Harold Swain to lend him some money. She said Perry told her Swain laughed in his face.

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Then, according to Bundy’s report, Beaver said Perry told her this:

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I’m going to kill that n—–.

nnDennis Perry’s pet cockatiel was named Squeaky.nDennis Perry’s pet cockatiel was named Squeaky. (Family Photo)nn

DENNIS PERRY WAS LIVING NEAR Jacksonville, Florida, working construction. He and his wife, Karen, had been married seven years when Bundy showed up at their home on marshy Black Hammock Island.

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The men spoke in the driveway, and Perry laid out his alibi: He was in the Atlanta area when the murders happened.

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Bundy said Perry mentioned a detail that was significant: Harold Swain had the strong hands of a pulpwooder. But Perry also said he didn’t personally know Swain. How, Bundy wondered, would Perry know about the man’s hands?

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It was well-known around Spring Bluff that Swain had owned and operated a pulpwood business, and that fact was mentioned often in news coverage of the murders.

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Another day, Bundy spotted Kennedy pumping gas and pulled over. The men were familiar from when they both worked at the sheriff’s office. And Bundy knew how long Kennedy had toiled to solve the church murders. It seemed to Kennedy that Bundy wanted to hear his opinion on Perry.

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Bundy pulled out a photo of Perry, with shoulder-length hair, that Jane Beaver had given him.

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Ten years had passed since Kennedy and his partner investigated Perry, along with dozens of others. Kennedy didn’t remember Perry.

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But after listening to Bundy describe what Bundy considered incriminating evidence, including Perry’s comment about Harold Swain’s hands, Kennedy remarked that the photo looked like the composite. He thought Bundy might be on to something.

nnDale Bundy dropped Erik Sparre as a suspect, too.nDale Bundy dropped Erik Sparre as a suspect, too. (Camden County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page)nn

WHEN BUNDY READ DOCUMENTS from Kennedy and Gregory’s investigation, he says he suspected they had tunnel vision on Donnie Barrentine and weren’t as open-minded as they should’ve been about Perry. Kennedy and Gregory would later wonder if Bundy had tunnel vision on Perry when he heard about Erik Sparre.

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In November 1998, Sparre’s second ex-wife, Rhonda Minder, contacted the sheriff’s office. It had been 12 years since the family of Sparre’s first ex-wife played a tape for Kennedy in which a man she identified as Sparre said he’d killed the Swains.

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Minder had information to share, too. A GBI agent assisting Bundy detailed her statement in a report.

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One day in 1988, she said, Sparre held her down on the bed with a pillow over her face.

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Don’t kill me! she screamed.

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She fought free.

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Minder brought up the church murders, though the report doesn’t say why.

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You could have killed those people in Camden County, Minder told Sparre, according to the document.

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This is how she said he responded:

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Yeah, I could have killed those people.

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The report doesn’t say if she knew why Sparre would’ve killed the Swains, but it says she called him a “white supremacist.”

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Bundy and his GBI assistant pulled basic background info on Sparre but stopped looking into him within weeks, the case file shows. Bundy told “Undisclosed” that he dismissed Sparre as a suspect because Minder said he’d claimed to have used a shotgun to kill the Swains, not a handgun. But there is no record in the case file of Minder or anyone else saying Sparre used a shotgun.

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When I spoke with her in 2019, she said something that wasn’t in the report of her talk with Bundy. She said Sparre told her explicitly that he had killed the couple.

nnThe former home of  Dennis Perry’s grandparents is near Rising Daughter Baptist Church.nThe former home of Dennis Perry’s grandparents is near Rising Daughter Baptist Church. (Ryon Horne / rhorne@ajc.com)nn

BUNDY KEPT CHARGING TOWARD PERRY. The detective was close enough that his contract was extended.

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On Jan. 13, 2000, nearly 15 years after the Swains died, Bundy succeeded. A grand jury indicted Perry on two counts of murder. Within hours, Perry was at a law enforcement facility in Jacksonville with three investigators, saying, again, that he was nowhere near Camden County on the night of the murders.

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One of the investigators was GBI agent Ron Rhodes, who’d been brought in to help Bundy. Rhodes often recorded interviews and had a recorder with him. But the only record of what was said in that room is a written report by Rhodes. No one turned on the tape recorder.

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nSpring Bluff is a rural community in northern Camden County, a 14-mile drive from Brunswick on the coast.nnn

Rhodes’ report says Perry said terribly damning things, including that he rode a motorcycle to Camden County with his brother days before the shooting and that he “could” have been at the church but “could not remember.”

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“Agent Rhodes asked Perry if the gun went off by accident and Perry stated yes.”

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“Detective Bundy asked Perry if he was scared this day had been coming for a long time and Perry stated yes.”

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Then Perry said something that ended the interview.

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“Perry stated, ‘you’re trying to put words in my mouth.’”

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Only then did Rhodes ask Perry if he would make a statement on tape. He said no.

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Perry and his attorneys maintain Rhodes’ report is inaccurate and misleading. If there were a recording, it would be clear exactly what Perry said and what the detectives had said to him.

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“Unfortunately,” Perry’s trial attorney Dale Westling would later say, “we’ll never know what he was saying because three experienced police officers in the center of law enforcement in the giant city of Jacksonville, surrounded by electronic equipment, chose not to record it.”

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WHEN KENNEDY AND GREGORY HEARD there’d been an arrest in the case, they were happy. Then Gregory recognized Perry’s name. He was the man they’d cleared 12 years earlier.

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He called Kennedy.

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We put his photo in a lineup, Gregory said.

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Kennedy remembered. He felt sick.

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The two both told the district attorney’s office they had cleared Perry. Now the state was seeking the death penalty.

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AS PERRY’S TRIAL APPROACHED, the state offered him a deal.

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If he would plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter, Chief Assistant District Attorney John B. Johnson III would seek a 10-year sentence with credit for the three years he’d already spent in jail. He’d even see to it that Perry was eligible for parole in just two weeks. That would be drastically different from the death penalty. (Johnson declined to comment for this story.)

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Perry was hoping for an acquittal. He didn’t want a deal.

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The trial to decide whether he should live or die began Feb. 10, 2003.

nnChief Assistant District Attorney John B. Johnson III in 2009.nChief Assistant District Attorney John B. Johnson III in 2009. (Michael Hall / The Brunswick News)nn

Bundy was critical to the case, but defense attorney Westling found a wide-open target in the deputy’s no-notes-or-recording method of interviewing. Westling questioned him with an incredulous tone and gave his style a nickname: “The Bundy Method.”

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The method caused contention throughout the trial, but perhaps the most striking moment came when Bundy testified that Perry admitted that he was at the scene of the murders. Bundy said he remembered Perry telling him and the two other investigators this. Rhodes’ report says Perry said he “could” have been at the scene but “could not remember” — not that he was there. Neither Rhodes nor the Florida detective sitting in on the interview corroborated Bundy’s assertion in their testimony.

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Cora Fisher, the church witness who’d told Bundy that Perry was the shooter, was too frail to come to trial. Her testimony, given in a deposition at a nursing home, was read aloud in court. Fisher said she recognized Perry as the killer in the photo Jane Beaver showed her, the one that made her faint. Fisher said something else about fainting: Ever since the murders, she fainted every time she saw “somebody white coming at me with long hair or any kind of hair.”

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The defense chose not to attack Fisher for the curious sketch her memory had produced for an artist hours after the murders. Fisher’s suspect looked wildly different from the man in the three other witness sketches. During the deposition, when Perry’s attorney showed Fisher a photo of Donnie Barrentine with long hair, she said Barrentine was the killer.

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Part of the defense’s strategy to prove Perry innocent was to prove Barrentine guilty. Perry’s attorneys called as a witness the inmate who in 1985 said Barrentine had boasted about killing a black couple in a church. The inmate testified that Barrentine said he and a “partner” had taken part in the murder plot. But Barrentine never gave the partner’s name, he said. (There’s no evidence Barrentine ever knew Perry or Sparre.)

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Barrentine testified he was innocent, that he had no memory of confessing. (In 2019, he told me he might’ve done some crazy things while trafficking drugs, but he would never hurt someone at a church.)

nnCora Fisher’s sketch.nCora Fisher’s sketch. (Case file)nn

The glasses found near the bodies couldn’t be explained by the state or the defense. Stuck in the hinge, investigators had found two hairs, but DNA tests showed the hairs didn’t belong to Perry or Barrentine. The same went for the car seen by at least two people outside the church. Neither man could be linked to a similar car.

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Kennedy and Gregory testified about their efforts in the case.

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Though he hadn’t been a deputy in a decade, Kennedy felt he was betraying the law enforcement community when he testified about problems in the state’s case. At the same time, he looked at Perry and felt nauseated.

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Called as a witness by the prosecution, Kennedy told the court that he’d recorded interviews with key witnesses and had no idea why the tapes, like the eyeglasses and nearly all other physical evidence, were now missing.

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Gregory happily testified for the defense about how he and Kennedy had cleared Perry in 1988. He was defiant with Johnson, as they went back and forth over missing evidence. Gregory estimated that four boxes of files and photos were gone.

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A FORMER NEIGHBOR AND CO-WORKER of Perry’s was the linchpin to his alibi. Charlie Williamson testified that he drove Perry to and from work in College Park in 1985, including on the day of the murders. Williamson recalled seeing the sketch of the suspect days later. He said he kidded Perry because the sketch resembled him, but he knew Perry couldn’t have done it.

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Williamson said they normally worked until 4:30 p.m. or 5 p.m. and the trip to Perry’s house in Jonesboro took an hour or more. Best case, Perry could’ve left Jonesboro at 5:30 p.m. With that timeline and ongoing roadwork on I-75, Gregory testified, it was “virtually impossible” to place Perry at Rising Daughter by about 8:45 p.m.

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In the gallery, Perry’s relatives felt pretty good about his chances of acquittal.

nnButch Kennedy has spent years telling people he believes Dennis Perry is innocent.nButch Kennedy has spent years telling people he believes Dennis Perry is innocent. (Tyson Horne / tyson.horne@ajc.com)nn

But Jane Beaver’s testimony fell like a bomb.

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She described what Perry allegedly said to her about planning to kill Harold Swain. She said her daughter didn’t hear it; she’d stepped out of the room.

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“He told me that he asked the man for money, if he would loan him money to get back to Jonesboro,” Beaver said. She paused and used air quotes, saying Perry said Swain “put me down and made fun of me.”

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“OK,” Johnson said. “Did Mr. Perry say what he was going to do to that man?”

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“He said, ‘I always wondered what it was like to kill a n—–, and now I’m going to get me one.’”

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The jury didn’t know — because the defense didn’t know — that Beaver was soon to be paid $12,000 in reward money for her testimony, as a document uncovered by “Undisclosed” proves. The jury didn’t know that even Beaver’s daughter, who’d dated Perry, didn’t believe Perry was guilty, as she told “Undisclosed.” The jury didn’t know that people close to Beaver, who died in 2018 after a 10-year fight with dementia, had for decades regarded her as someone who’d lost touch with reality after a series of personal traumas. The jury didn’t know the defense had lost a motion to compel the state health officials to turn over Beaver’s medical records, or that on the state’s copy of the motion someone wrote a curious note in pen: “Suffered from delusional problems — hallucinations — paranoia.”

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The jury didn’t hear a word about Erik Sparre because all the investigators had dropped him as a suspect.

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IN CLOSING ARGUMENTS, the jury heard Perry’s attorney complain about the missing records and evidence and say that Perry was proved innocent years ago by two good investigators. He said The Bundy Method was sloppy, that it was simply unbelievable that Bundy solved the cold case so quickly. He implied Bundy was motivated to rush so he could get his contract extended.

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Johnson, a veteran prosecutor who had a reputation for winning high-profile and often controversial cases, told the jury he was thankful Kennedy and Gregory were never able to charge Barrentine because, if that’d happened, an innocent man might be in prison. He said The Bundy Method was sound. Though there was no record of it, Johnson said Beaver had come forward to Kennedy and Gregory decades earlier, and they didn’t “bother to call her back.” Though no one but Bundy remembered it, Johnson told the jury repeatedly that Perry admitted he was at the scene. That, Johnson stressed, was a confession.

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When the jury returned the verdict, Perry’s wife cried in the gallery. So did relatives of the Swains; they thanked God for justice. Perry would later tell me how it felt: “It’s like someone reached in your body and snatched out your soul. My whole body was weak.”

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Before the jury could begin to consider if Perry should die, Johnson made another offer: If Perry would waive his rights to appeal, the state would agree to two life sentences instead of death.

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Perry had only minutes to decide. He wasn’t allowed to confer with his family.

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His attorneys told him they suspected the jury would vote for death.

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Perry took the deal.

nnBrenda Perry says she’s never seen her husband Dennis Perry mad and can’t imagine him as a killer.nBrenda Perry says she’s never seen her husband Dennis Perry mad and can’t imagine him as a killer. (Tyson Horne / tyson.horne@ajc.com)nn

IN PRISON, Perry began enduring identical days full of identical moments, where time, in fact, passed, but imperceptibly. He wrote poems and drew, read the Bible. He watched TV and worked in the commissary. He slept on a bottom bunk in a large, open dorm and kept mostly to himself.

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After a few years, he divorced his wife. He didn’t want her to feel obligated to a life she hadn’t signed up for.

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In 2007, Perry got a letter from Brenda Hahn, a woman he’d known in passing in Camden County. She recalled a night long ago when Perry gave her a kiss on the cheek outside a bar — a friendly thank you for a ride to the store. Perry was single that night; Hahn had just been married. But Hahn remembered that kiss.

nnDennis and Brenda Perry married in a small ceremony at the prison.nDennis and Brenda Perry married in a small ceremony at the prison. (Family photo)nn

Now she was divorced, too, and thinking of Perry. She believed he was no killer.

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After exchanging letters, Perry called, prepared with a good opening line: Do you know who this is? It’s the rest of your life.

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Crazy as it sounded to some of her loved ones, Hahn eventually decided she wanted to be with Perry. They married in 2009 at Autry State Prison.

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Brenda became one of Perry’s most vocal advocates. She kept in contact with the Georgia Innocence Project, which had taken Perry’s case after receiving a letter from his mother, who died in 2017.

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Brenda, who runs the cafeteria at Camden County High, got a new license plate: DBPERRY. Dennis and Brenda Perry. She talks often to co-workers about Dennis, how good a man he is, how patient and kind and loving, how much she wishes he could come home.

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“People don’t realize what they have,” Brenda told me. “Sometimes when he calls, I just listen to him breathe, to know he’s all right.”

nnDennis Perry passes time learning new skills in prison.nDennis Perry passes time learning new skills in prison. (Family photo)nn

Dennis sends Brenda poems and crafts he makes. He tells her as often as possible how thankful he is for her. He listens to her cry and encourages her in all things. She is, he says, his soulmate, his world, his life, his “BFF” (best friend forever).

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They talk about what they’ll do when — not if — he comes home.

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“I dream of the day I’ll be able to hold my wife sitting on the creek bank and listen to the wind blow,” Dennis told me in a letter. “I’d like to find a field with just Brenda and I to drop to our knees and thank God for all his beautiful blessings and the deliverance he had provided us.”

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For now, Brenda drives 90 minutes every Saturday to sit across the table from him for five hours at the Coffee Correctional Facility. Guards allow them a quick hug and kiss. They have never been allowed more than that even once.

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Today they feel more hope than they have in a long time, because of discoveries made by “Undisclosed,” which worked alongside Perry’s attorneys. The habeas corpus petition sits before the Superior Court in Coffee County, where Perry is held in prison.

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“Undisclosed” had covered so much ground in its 24-hour-plus season on the murders. It seemed daunting to me to find something new in a case that’s been investigated and reinvestigated over 35 maddening years. But “Undisclosed” mentioned Sparre only in passing, and the habeas petition didn’t mention him at all. I quickly found out there were still leads to follow, questions with answers.

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Chapter 4
What Everybody Missed

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On a rutted dirt road outside Brunswick, I steer into a yard with a sun-bleached bread truck parked next to a double-wide trailer. This is the home of a former longtime Winn-Dixie manager, a man I hope can help me find Sparre’s old boss.

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Back in 1986, Kennedy and Gregory dropped Sparre as a suspect because his alibi checked out: He was working at a Winn-Dixie in Brunswick on the night of the murders. The report detailing the alibi contained a line that seemed surprising to me: The man listed as Sparre’s boss, Donald A. Mobley, told Gregory that several people remembered seeing Sparre at the store that night.

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How many people could tell you what they were doing on a random day a year ago? Yet Mobley was saying that several employees could remember — a year later — seeing their co-worker on a particular evening?

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At the trailer door, the man tells me he doesn’t know any Donald Mobley. His wife, who also worked at the same grocery store in the mid-’80s, says she doesn’t either. They do, however, know David Mobley, who managed the store back then.

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Given David’s number, I stand in the couple’s carport and dial.

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David Mobley picks up and listens to my questions. Yes, he says, he managed the Winn-Dixie at Brunswick’s Lanier Plaza from 1981 to June 1986. He can’t remember if Sparre worked there, but he says he knows he had no employee named Donald Mobley.

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“I’m positive,” David says.

nnThe Winn-Dixie where Erik Sparre was said to have been working on the night of the murders is about 15 miles from the church.nThe Winn-Dixie where Erik Sparre was said to have been working on the night of the murders is about 15 miles from the church. (Ryon Horne / rhorne@ajc.com)nn

Had the investigator talked to David and accidentally written Donald in the case file? David says he has no memory of anyone ever calling to ask about Sparre or the murders.

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It’s been 34 years. Perhaps David has forgotten, and the first name was a simple mistake. But if Gregory got David’s first name wrong, he also got David’s middle initial wrong.

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And his home address.

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And his birth date.

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And his Social Security number.

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And his home number.

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And his work number.

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None of them is even close.

nnJoe Gregory fears he was tricked by Erik Sparre’s alibi.nJoe Gregory fears he was tricked by Erik Sparre’s alibi. (Contributed)nn

And that’s not just David Mobley’s word. I also confirmed this by scouring public records and conducting various other interviews. I found that the Social Security number given to investigators by Donald A. Mobley belonged to a woman who died in 1978.

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Through old telephone directories at a local library, I found that the phone numbers listed for Mobley’s work and home belonged to different people when Gregory wrote the report. Oddly, the work number, which ought to have belonged to Winn-Dixie, belonged to a widow. Her daughter told me she never heard of her late mother knowing anyone by the name of Donald Mobley. Asked if there was any chance someone could’ve used the phone, the daughter said her mom had a phone in the back shed that someone could’ve used.

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Where did Gregory get the number to the Winn-Dixie? He doesn’t remember, but he says sometimes he would ask suspects for bosses’ phone numbers. Perhaps Sparre was the source of the phone number, Gregory says.

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Then I tell Gregory something I learned from Sparre’s ex-wife Rhonda: Sparre used to change his voice and pretend to be other people on the phone.

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Gregory sounds crestfallen. He grows quiet. In our previous conversations, he often criticized Bundy and others who he felt made errors in the case. In this moment, he seems to look inward as I ask, is it possible the person he spoke to all those years ago wasn’t a Winn-Dixie manager at all?

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“That’s very possible,” Gregory says.

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AFTER I TELL KENNEDY what I’ve learned about Sparre’s alibi, he sits reeling at the picnic table by the Satilla River. He progresses from shock to shame to regret to sadness in a matter of minutes.

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He thinks of Perry. “God!” Kennedy says in anguish, slapping both knees with his palms, staring into the storm clouds over the river. “He’s been in prison all this time. Oh, my God …”

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Kennedy stopped drinking four years ago, at age 70. He started reading the Bible instead. He tells me he has health problems stemming from diabetes. He’s had a triple heart bypass. He keeps saying he wants to live to see this case resolved.

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He thanks me for what I’ve discovered about Sparre’s alibi, for finding something he missed, because it gives him hope for the case to be set right.

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“It may be something that takes this guy out of prison,” he says. “God almighty. It just seems like it opens up a whole new door.”

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SPARRE CALLS ME ONE DAY IN FEBRUARY. The 56-year-old has just opened a letter I sent to the Brantley County home where he lives with his elderly mother, asking him to talk.

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He says he is innocent, that he never told anyone he was guilty. He says he isn’t racist or violent.

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He says he doesn’t even know where Rising Daughter Baptist Church is.

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“I do not know the Swains. Never met them,” he says.

nnA portrait of Erik Sparre from his Facebook profile.nA portrait of Erik Sparre from his Facebook profile. (Facebook)nn

He remembers hearing rumors that the Swains were murdered because Harold Swain owed money to drug dealers.

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I tell Sparre that multiple people told police that he’d said he was the killer. I mention that Kennedy’s report says there was a tape of him on the phone claiming to be the killer while threatening to kill his first ex-wife and her family.

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Sparre still denies he said it and says his ex-wife was lying. (Emily died in 2013. Her brother Emmett Head, who a police report says heard Sparre say he killed the Swains, declined to comment for this story. The tape is missing.)

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Sparre doesn’t mention an alibi, and in this conversation, I don’t either because I’m hoping to talk to him in person.

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A few days later he calls back and sounds mad. He accuses me of coming to his house and taking a clipping of his mother’s hair for a DNA test.

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Stunned, I start to realize what happened: After learning from me about the problems I encountered with Sparre’s alibi, Perry’s attorneys decided to check his mother’s DNA against the lone DNA evidence in the murders: the hairs found in the hinge of the glasses.

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Because the hairs were rootless, the only test that could be done was a mitochondrial DNA test, which can identify the maternal line of the person who’d lost the hairs. The hairs have gone missing, but the case file still contains the details of the DNA profile.

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I assure Sparre I haven’t been anywhere near his house. On the phone, I can hear him smoking and occasionally spitting on the ground as we talk. This time he says he did tell his ex-wife Emily that he killed the Swains, but that he was only trying to scare her. This time he mentions an alibi. He says he was working at Shuckers, a seafood place on Jekyll Island.

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Sparre says he is done talking with me and wants me to leave him alone. I haven’t had a chance to ask about his Winn-Dixie alibi, but he acts like he doesn’t need an alibi.

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“This DNA,” Sparre says, “will prove that I didn’t do it.”

nnThe killer walked up these steps 35 years ago.nThe killer walked up these steps 35 years ago. (Tyson Horne / tyson.horne@ajc.com)nn

THE DNA DID NOT PROVE THAT.

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The test shows that the hairs from the crime scene belong to someone in Sparre’s maternal line. Sparre is the only person in his maternal line known to have allegedly admitted he was the killer.

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The test found that 99.6% of the North American population would not be a match. In other words, 1 out of every 250 people would match the hairs from the scene. A modern test of those hairs could produce more precise results, but the hairs have been lost since they were tested in 2001.

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The test linking Sparre to the glasses is significant, said Simon A. Cole, a forensic science expert from the University of California, Irvine, who examined the DNA report for the AJC. The match is compelling, Cole said, especially when you factor in the other evidence about Sparre: two ex-wives describing him as a violent racist, his first ex-wife’s statement that he had glasses like the unique pair with the hairs in the hinge, Sparre’s multiple alleged statements about committing the murders.

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It isn’t as though Sparre was a random man who happened to be a match to the hairs. He was a known suspect who was once caught on tape saying he murdered the Swains. And now he’s linked by DNA to glasses found inches from the victims’ bodies inside a church that Sparre says he has never been to.

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“How unlucky does that (DNA match) make Sparre if in fact he’s innocent?” Cole said.

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Perry’s attorneys in late March took the DNA results to Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson, whose office prosecuted Perry. Johnson’s office could have considered the evidence and asked a judge to free Perry, as other prosecutors have done when new DNA evidence brought convictions into question. The Georgia Attorney General’s Office, which was notified on April 1 of the DNA match, could also ask for Perry to be freed. Five legal experts I spoke with said that unless the state has some bombshell evidence to refute the DNA findings, the state should move to free Perry now.

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The Georgia Innocence Project and the King & Spalding law firm filed a motion for a new trial on April 27. “The new DNA evidence is critically significant because it for the first time provides reliable forensic physical evidence linking a known suspect, Erik Sparre, to physical evidence at the crime scene,” the lawyers wrote.

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On May 12 — six weeks after her office was notified of the DNA match — Johnson asked the GBI to reopen the investigation into the murders, citing the DNA. Johnson said she would use the GBI’s findings to decide how to respond the motion for a new trial.

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As of May 14, Camden County Sheriff Jim Proctor and John B. Johnson III, the chief assistant prosecutor in the DA’s office who prosecuted Perry, hadn’t responded to requests for comment on the DNA match. Bundy, who retired from the sheriff’s office in September 2019, declined to comment.

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Perry’s attorneys said they were disappointed it took six weeks for the case to be reopened, but heartened the GBI was getting involved. Brenda Perry had a similar reaction to news of the investigation. “That could take months,” she said with dismay.

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In the new trial motion, the attorneys argue that Perry never would have been prosecuted had Sparre’s DNA been tested along with other suspects as Perry’s trial approached. Instead, the petitions says, the state “almost certainly” would’ve built a case against Sparre.

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I CALL SPARRE on the day the motion for a new trial is filed. He apparently hasn’t been interviewed by law enforcement and doesn’t know about the DNA match. He tells me he doesn’t want to talk.

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“I’m not going to sit here and go into all this. You got your DNA thing. That was you that came by and got that,” Sparre tells me.

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Again, I make clear that the hairs were taken from his mother by the Georgia Innocence Project. I tell him the DNA was a match to hairs in the hinge of a pair of glasses found next to the bodies. “I want to see how you can explain that,” I say.

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“Look, I have no idea,” he says. “I don’t have any glasses missing.”

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I say his ex-wife told police in 1986 that he had a pair like the ones recovered at the church.

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“I don’t know what she told them — and I don’t care. I want to be left alone. Leave me alone. Do not call me anymore.”

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He hangs up.

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Sparre Gets News

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NEWS OF THE DNA MATCH THRILLS KENNEDY.

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“Prayer does work,” he says when one of Perry’s lawyers calls to tell him.

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“I’m really happy,” he says when I tell him about the renewed GBI investigation.

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The old detective knows people will ask why he and his partner didn’t test Sparre when they investigated him. The reason is simple: It wasn’t commonly done in 1986. DNA testing was in its infancy.

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That doesn’t stop Kennedy from blaming himself. He recognizes that the DNA test could be the best evidence yet that he and Gregory failed in the investigation. They had Sparre. They let him go. That realization is crushing.

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But he finds comfort in knowing the case may finally be solved. That was his job. His responsibility.

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He still thinks about the Swains, how good they were, how terrible and unjust their ending. He cannot shake seeing them dead in the vestibule. He’s spent untold hours thinking of their final moments and how those seconds caused the community and their family so much hurt. The scene plays out in his head like an awful dream:

nnButch Kennedy visits the graves, again.nButch Kennedy visits the graves, again. (Tyson Horne / tyson.horne@ajc.com)nn

Before the gunshots, Harold realizes the man isn’t here for friendly reasons. Harold takes him on.

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Harold loves to fish the Little Satilla River. He stops by people’s houses to see if they need help with anything, for no special reason.

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Now Harold takes a bullet. He’s fighting the gunman with the strong hands that you get from a career in pulpwooding.

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Harold’s Bible is still on his seat in the front pew. It’s turned to Ephesians 3, which is about Christ’s boundless and enduring love.

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Three more slugs rip Harold’s skin. One woman in the sanctuary can see him slumped over, holding on to the killer. Thelma runs to help.

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Thelma is a homemaker who makes sure to get all the work done in time to watch “Guiding Light.” She is funny, empathetic, loyal. When her niece Cynthia went away to college, Thelma made her a quilt to remind her of home.

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The gunman fires again. Both husband and wife are wounded, together, as ever.

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Harold and Thelma had been married 43 years. Just a day before the shooting, they went on a date to a new restaurant at the mall in Brunswick. When they found the place closed, they stopped by Cynthia’s house instead. She cooked them dinner, and Harold said her black-eyed peas were better than what the restaurant would’ve served. That little comment would make Cynthia smile every time she thought of it for 35 years.

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Days after the murders, the Swains were buried in the small cemetery in the churchyard.

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But in Kennedy’s mind, they’re still faceup in the vestibule, side by side, waiting for him to make sense of what happened.

nnThe church on a recent night.nThe church on a recent night. (Hyosub Shin / hyosub.shin@ajc.com)nnnnnn

This is a reconstruction of a 35-year old case. Reporter Joshua Sharpe reviewed the 6,000-page investigative file, listened to a 24-hour podcast and conducted dozens of interviews.

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Dialogue appearing in quotes was either spoken to the reporter or is contained in transcripts of audio recordings or court proceedings. The AJC used italics in places where sources recalled the essence of what was said.

nnnnJoshua Sharpen

Joshua Sharpe grew up in Waycross, a South Georgia city planted on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp. As a reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, he has covered executions, the resurgence of meth, the failures of authorities to protect two children who were found buried in their backyard and the ravages of Hurricane Michael. Among the recognition his work has received is a 2018 Award of Excellence from the Atlanta Press Club.

nJan Winburnn

Jan Winburn, who edited this story, teaches in the University of Georgia’s MFA program in narrative nonfiction. She specialized in narrative storytelling as an editor in newsrooms for 40 years. At The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, she edited the 22-chapter “Through Hell and High Water,” which reconstructed the epic battle of two hospitals to rescue patients during Hurricane Katrina, and “Chaplain Turner’s War,” which documented the life of an Army chaplain from Georgia during the Iraq War. Reporters she worked with have won the Pulitzer Prize, the Ernie Pyle Award, a Peabody, the Batten Medal for public service and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists.

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This presentation was designed by Dave Young, Pilar Plata, Jason Foust and Pete Corson and copy-edited by Liam Miller. Additional editing by Janel Davis, Bill Rankin, Susan Hogan and Shawn McIntosh. Photography by Ryon Horne, Tyson Horne and Hyosub Shin. See AJC.com/alibi for entire project team.

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Who’s Who

nnHAROLD SWAINn

Harold Swain

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A 66-year-old retired pulpwooder and deacon who was known around Spring Bluff for his generosity. He died in a struggle with the gunman at Rising Daughter Baptist Church on March 11, 1985.

nnnTHELMA SWAINn

Thelma Swain

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A 63-year-old homemaker and mother known for her humor and kindness. She died after racing to help her husband fight off the gunman at Rising Daughter Baptist Church.

nnnBUTCH KENNEDYn

Butch Kennedy

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The chief deputy at the Camden County Sheriff’s Office in 1985 and the lead investigator on the murders. He became a deputy to follow his father’s path. He retired before solving the murders, and the case has haunted him for 35 years.

nnnJOE GREGORYn

Joe Gregory

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The GBI agent who worked with Butch Kennedy on the case for years, running down thousands of leads and helping clear Dennis Perry as a suspect in 1988.

nnnDONNIE BARRENTINEn

Donnie Barrentine

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The suspect who most interested the initial lead investigators, partly because he had allegedly bragged about killing a black couple at a church shortly after the murders.

nnnDALE BUNDYn

Dale Bundy

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The former deputy who was rehired to investigate the church murders in 1998. He helped convict Dennis Perry.

nnnJANE BEAVERn

Jane Beaver

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The mother of Dennis Perry’s former girlfriend. Beaver set the case against Perry into motion by showing Perry’s photo to two women who’d been in the church during the murders. Beaver testified that Perry told her he was going to kill Harold Swain.

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Dennis Perry

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Lived in Spring Bluff to help care for his partially disabled grandfather but moved away four months before the murders. In 2003, he was convicted of murdering Harold and Thelma Swain based largely on the testimony of his former girlfriend’s mother. Perry is serving life.

nnnJOHN B. JOHNSON III n

John B. Johnson III

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The longtime chief assistant district attorney of the Brunswick Judicial Circuit. He prosecuted Dennis Perry.

nnnERIK SPARRE n

Erik Sparre

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An early suspect who allegedly told his ex-wife he committed the murders. He was dropped from the case because investigators believed that his alibi checked out.

nnnEMILY HEAD SPARRE n

Emily Head Sparre

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An ex-wife of Erik Sparre who told police in 1986 that he’d confessed to the murders.

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It is bisected by I-75 and is part of Georgia’s Black Belt, a band of communities that are heavily driven by agriculture and have large Black populations. The new census tallies say Dooly is still majority Black, by 700 people.”},{“_id”:”SHLOGBMFWVCLRD5XIURBDBQPRI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629410922194},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Dooly County officials say they worry the lower population count may hurt. The number helps determine a community’s share of funding from 100 federal programs, including Medicaid, Head Start, block grant initiatives for mental health services and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps). The count, of course, also affects political districting.”},{“_id”:”MO5XLXY7QNEY5HFXWUBMZ3662Q”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629410922195},”type”:”text”,”content”:”All over Dooly, people said the lack of housing was a huge reason some leave. Jobs is another. Many people head for booming Houston County. In the new census data, only 15 counties grew more by percentage than Houston County, home to agricultural hub Perry, Robins Air Force Base, a widely lauded school district and new businesses.”},{“_id”:”M4CQGF4LSREKDDPFXGQBJIZ72U”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629410922196},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“Ain’t nothing to do around here,” Gwendolyn Wade, 62, said, chatting with neighbors on the porch in Unadilla. “Until they start building some houses and doing some things, they’re going to go to Perry or Warner Robins or somewhere.””},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”copyright”:”2021 Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”address”:{“locality”:”Unadilla”,”region”:”GA”},”caption”:”Aerial photo shows downtown Unadilla on Wednesday, August 18, 2021. 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The ‘57, as in 1957, sells pool-room-style chili dogs and diner fare. Old Elvis records climb the walls, and a life-sized (or slightly bigger) Elvis greets customers at the door, frozen in time, crooning.”},{“_id”:”PFF3ZCFLYJH4TLJEY4LS2BVCV4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629410922200},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Many of the other storefronts in downtown are vacant, windows busted, cobwebs spreading.”},{“_id”:”7XBU2ESIJVCKTNBX3JU4MSYIME”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629410922201},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“Southern Keepsakes,” reads the flaking golden name on one closed shop.”},{“_id”:”SWFGPBS6U5HH3OOX7ORGCKQQSE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629410922202},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Hunter Pulsifer said the limited shopping options are a common issue for some.”},{“_id”:”PRMSXHHSUZBNZDGBITU4E2AXPU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629410922203},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“Think about this: Where’s the closest Walmart,” Pulsifer said, walking into The ‘57 for lunch. From where he stood, it was 11 miles south, in Cordele. “People don’t want to drive (that far) to Walmart.””},{“_id”:”B3AWHRWYYNF6LH2VQ7ZB6SKXJI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629410922204},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Pulsifer, though, prefers the country. He grew up in Perry when it felt more like Unadilla. Not long ago, the 26-year-old, who works at the local John Deere dealer, moved from Perry to neighboring Pulaski County, which he said he chose over Dooly because he preferred the school system.”},{“_id”:”ZLX2AKND2VGYRKM4WUG33YLWGM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629410922205},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“And that was the only reason,” he said. “There’s nothing wrong with Dooly County.””},{“level”:2,”_id”:”BKSAJQI6ONETNCWZ6UITF3TPTM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629410922206},”type”:”header”,”content”:”Dealing with data”},{“_id”:”GXBDYR4IBFC4FIO5K4XGJVLDB4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629410922207},”type”:”text”,”content”:”County Commissioner Eugene Cason disputed the census count. If 3,700 people left Dooly, Cason reasoned, why is there a housing shortage around the county?”},{“_id”:”IY32SOICP5GQXKBGVJNVPJEP44″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629410922208},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“Just do the math,” Cason said, seated for an interview at the commission dais in downtown Vienna, where each board member’s spot is stocked with a bottle of hand sanitizer branded CENSUS 2020.”},{“_id”:”SZMI454KLFHETGVRC4SUPWYCKE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629460180008},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Commissioner Lester said part of the problem is that homes fall into disrepair or are abandoned. Some are old family homes owned by various relatives who don’t seem to have plans for the properties. There also is a shortage of affordable land for building, he said, partly because a lot of folks like to keep land for deer hunting. The only new construction he knew of recently was the 75 apartments that are rising in Vienna. Dooly officials hope those units, as well as a planned countywide expansion of broadband internet, spur growth.”},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”copyright”:”2021 Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”address”:{“locality”:”Unadilla”,”region”:”GA”},”caption”:”A lunch customer goes into The ’57 Diner in downtown Unadilla on Wednesday, August 18, 2021. 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He left for college in New York state and fled back to the woods where it wasn’t so crowded.”},{“_id”:”Z2IQ7UNESRAUJDGXPQKIY2FR7Q”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629410922214},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Two of Barron’s sons live in the Atlanta area; a third son swears he’ll never move to the city. But Barron keeps hearing about other young people leaving.”},{“_id”:”B3AWHRWYYNF6LH2VQ7ZB6SKXJI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629410922204},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“I just had one of my (former) students last weekend to tell me, ‘Well, I’m moving,’” Barron said, shaking his head in disappointment. 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The GBI is investigating an officer involved shooting in Carroll County. One man is injured.  No deputies are injured.
 
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— GA Bureau of Investigation (@GBI_GA) August 20, 2021nn”,”_id”:”https://twitter.com/GBI_GA/status/1428533725097234433″,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:1629425863300},”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”height”:null},”type”:”oembed_response”},{“_id”:”KZW5GXAFMFGHHHKZ6GBEV5O5DQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629425863301},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Deputies tried to negotiate with him from outside the home, but Suter refused to come out, authorities said.”},{“_id”:”Q55ZRTGG7NGWRGCRPOA6UZBI7Q”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629425863302},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The sheriff’s office obtained a search warrant to enter the home and continued efforts to coax Suter outside. When that didn’t work, deputies sent tear gas into the mobile home, but Suter remained inside, according to the GBI.”},{“_id”:”ZKOLIRDAGFCQ5OTFZPGYMDYTVQ”,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”QOD47T4UN5CWFOBARI3YEDWT2E”},”type”:”raw_html”,”content”:”“},{“_id”:”F4UXOFED5NGRZCBK54VLTO2M5I”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629425863304},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“At approximately 6:18 p.m., deputies breached the front door of the residence,” Miles said. “As deputies breached the door, Suter began lighting a Molotov cocktail, at which time two Carroll County sheriff’s deputies fired their guns multiple times, striking Suter.””},{“_id”:”Q6Q77WHYDRBHBKU2C22243LPJE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629425863305},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Suter was treated at the scene before being taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, officials said. No deputies were injured during the standoff. Once the GBI’s investigation is complete, the state agency’s findings will be turned over to the Coweta Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s office, Miles said.”},{“_id”:”CQTR5TV6LBGABNHZCJXZAH72KE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629425863306},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Thursday’s incident is the 63rd shooting involving a law enforcement officer the GBI was asked to investigate this year and the second in as many days. On Wednesday afternoon, a 28-year-old Austell man was shot and killed by a Cobb County police officer after fleeing a traffic stop, authorities said. “},{“_id”:”IKLE7UBT4JDT3A2JXRKYUV3ZSQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[]},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The Atlanta Journal-Constitution also tracks officer-involved shootings that don’t involve the GBI, and those numbers sometimes differ from the GBI’s tally.”},{“_id”:”GQXQMSBHIBHKFOAM6TTJMTF2IA”,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”6VY4E3ZU45D2PMS5LVL7XIHG44″},”type”:”raw_html”,”content”:”“},{“_id”:”INGWORAEINGB3H33QX5OGY2EOQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629425863308},”type”:”text”,”content”:”— Please return to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for updates.”}],”display_date”:”2021-08-20T02:23:36.904Z”,”headlines”:{“basic”:”GBI: West Georgia deputies shoot man wielding Molotov cocktail”},”first_publish_date”:”2021-08-20T02:23:36.904Z”,”taxonomy”:{“sections”:[{“path”:”/news”,”parent”:{“default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”_website”:”ajc”,”parent_id”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”name”:”News”,”description”:”Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles – Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”_id”:”/news”,”additional_properties”:{“original”:{“parent”:{“AmpNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”BottomNav”:null,”TopNavRedesign”:null,”SectionMap”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”LoggedOutMenu”:null,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”TopNav”:null,”TopicsBar”:null,”ComposerNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”site”:{“site_url”:”https://www.ajc.com/news/”,”section_comments_enabled”:”Yes”,”site_description”:”Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles – Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”site_title”:”Atlanta GA News | Top News Page”},”navigation”:{“nav_title”:”News”},”inactive”:false,”node_type”:”section”,”_website”:”ajc”,”name”:”News”,”Sponsor”:{“sponsor_url_open_new_tab”:”true”,”sponsor_desktop_banner”:””,”sponsor_mobile_banner”:””,”sponsor_url”:””},”_id”:”/news”,”ancestors”:{“AmpNav”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”default”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”BottomNav”:[],”TopNavRedesign”:[],”SectionMap”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”LoggedOutMenu”:[],”MainMenuRedesign2021″:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”TopicsBar”:[]},”order”:{“AmpNav”:1001,”default”:1001,”SectionMap”:1018,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:1001,”ComposerNav”:1135}}},”_website_section_id”:”ajc./news”,”type”:”section”,”version”:”0.6.0″}],”primary_section”:{“path”:”/news”,”name”:”News”},”tags”:[{“text”:”breaking-news.ajc”},{“text”:”crime-news.ajc”},{“text”:”publicsafety.ajc”},{“text”:”atlanta-now”},{“text”:”teamjennifer”},{“text”:”carroll county”},{“text”:”ajc top news”}]},”type”:”story”,”last_updated_date”:”2021-08-20T02:23:37.271Z”,”canonical_url”:”/news/gbi-west-georgia-deputies-shoot-man-wielding-molotov-cocktail/GCZ3TO5HNNC4TBQUASJE23PHNQ/”,”promo_items”:{“basic”:{“credits”:{“affiliation”:[],”by”:[{“name”:”File photo”,”type”:”author”,”byline”:”File photo”}]},”subtitle”:”Atlanta Now stock images”,”width”:540,”caption”:”Authorities said the man was shot by deputies while trying to light a Molotov cocktail following a two-hour standoff.”,”type”:”image”,”url”:”https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/33RWRAQR4NDR7PUI2YM24ZI5V4.jpeg”,”height”:281}},”_id”:”GCZ3TO5HNNC4TBQUASJE23PHNQ”},{“content_elements”:[{“_id”:”X3FIZCM3IVA5JMY4O4HRMVT4JA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1593365483154},”type”:”text”,”content”:”One person was killed in a double shooting Thursday night at an apartment complex in southeast Atlanta, according to police.”},{“_id”:”IEV6FZZBDJGFXKOVKGB3MFVZSI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629425882584},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Shortly after 7 p.m., officers were called to the Villages of East Lake apartments on Greenhaven Drive. There, officers found one man with a gunshot wound, police said. Moments later, a second gunshot victim was found.”},{“_id”:”LSO5F57MXJHY3MW76OO573RCHU”,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”ZGAKFOE7ZFHX5LWGOASI7KR7TM”},”type”:”interstitial_link”,”content”:”Atlanta’s 2021 homicide victims”,”url”:”https://www.ajc.com/news/atlantas-2021-homicide-victims/EVKLI56XNFFXNDOQLDOG6K332U/”},{“_id”:”4JSHA3KADZCVNPO2G63EGRSPKM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629425882586},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The two injured men were taken to the hospital, where one died from his injuries, police said. The identities of the two men were not released late Thursday.”},{“_id”:”AFRQW3QUB5FIXOUXFUZ2CLOL5Q”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629425882587},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Investigators believe the suspected shooter left the scene in a white sedan. No other details were immediately available.”},{“_id”:”O2FCB3N36NHU5A3KOSDIQWG7RA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629425882588},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Thursday night’s homicide is the 98th the Atlanta Police Department has investigated this year.”}],”display_date”:”2021-08-20T02:12:55.365Z”,”headlines”:{“basic”:”1 killed in double shooting at East Lake apartment complex”},”first_publish_date”:”2021-08-20T02:12:55.365Z”,”taxonomy”:{“sections”:[{“path”:”/news”,”parent”:{“default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”_website”:”ajc”,”parent_id”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”name”:”News”,”description”:”Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles – Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”_id”:”/news”,”additional_properties”:{“original”:{“parent”:{“AmpNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”BottomNav”:null,”TopNavRedesign”:null,”SectionMap”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”LoggedOutMenu”:null,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”TopNav”:null,”TopicsBar”:null,”ComposerNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”site”:{“site_url”:”https://www.ajc.com/news/”,”section_comments_enabled”:”Yes”,”site_description”:”Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles – Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”site_title”:”Atlanta GA News | Top News Page”},”navigation”:{“nav_title”:”News”},”inactive”:false,”node_type”:”section”,”_website”:”ajc”,”name”:”News”,”Sponsor”:{“sponsor_url_open_new_tab”:”true”,”sponsor_desktop_banner”:””,”sponsor_mobile_banner”:””,”sponsor_url”:””},”_id”:”/news”,”ancestors”:{“AmpNav”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”default”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”BottomNav”:[],”TopNavRedesign”:[],”SectionMap”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”LoggedOutMenu”:[],”MainMenuRedesign2021″:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”TopicsBar”:[]},”order”:{“AmpNav”:1001,”default”:1001,”SectionMap”:1018,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:1001,”ComposerNav”:1135}}},”_website_section_id”:”ajc./news”,”type”:”section”,”version”:”0.6.0″}],”primary_section”:{“path”:”/news”,”name”:”News”},”tags”:[{“text”:”breaking-news.ajc”},{“text”:”crime-news.ajc”},{“text”:”publicsafety.ajc”},{“text”:”atlanta-now”},{“text”:”teamjennifer”},{“text”:”fulton county”},{“text”:”intown atlanta”}]},”type”:”story”,”last_updated_date”:”2021-08-20T02:25:02.115Z”,”canonical_url”:”/news/1-killed-in-double-shooting-at-southeast-atlanta-apartment-complex/OJBIGCMRAFF4RIKN2EF23KYZAA/”,”promo_items”:{“basic”:{“credits”:{“affiliation”:[]},”subtitle”:”CRIME SCENE TAPE”,”width”:1180,”type”:”image”,”url”:”https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/DNZBE2B5XFHIJMVSX6HELDSOCA.png”,”height”:748}},”_id”:”OJBIGCMRAFF4RIKN2EF23KYZAA”},{“content_elements”:[{“_id”:”UT46NJLIERHADG5UOWL5FIV3F4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1593365483154},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Nearly 30 children were evacuated from a flooded Cobb County day care on Thursday afternoon as heavy rain fell across metro Atlanta.”},{“_id”:”KOJFGD54VBHETMHVQJ6J646EGM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629410203626},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Cobb firefighters had to wade through knee-deep water as crews rescued 27 children and four adults from the Always Kids Child Care Center in Austell, officials said. 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27 children and 4 adults were rescued safely from a daycare on Anderson Mill Rd that was overcome with swift moving flood waters. #Squad4 #Engine22 #Battalion5 #cobbfire #swiftwater #CCFES #alwaysready pic.twitter.com/vbiDzXTsdm

— Cobb County Fire (@cobbcountyfire) August 19, 2021nn”,”_id”:”https://twitter.com/cobbcountyfire/status/1428464644834869249″,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:1629414317763},”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”height”:null},”type”:”oembed_response”},{“_id”:”ZT6RACI5SRHCFKZEZZU7PQD6AM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629410203629},”type”:”text”,”content”:”A nearby drainage area was overwhelmed as a result of the storm, filling the parking lot and sending rainwater gushing through the day care facility, officials said.”},{“_id”:”ED7IC4WHLJEXLGLPMYBKVZWZ7E”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629413699484},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“There were areas where the water was waist-deep for our rescuers,” Cobb fire spokesman Nicholas Danz told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “For a preschooler, that’s over their head.””},{“_id”:”LS3FYACEXZDA5MBDAS6UZ454WY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629413699485},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Employees were unable to get out of the building because the pressure from the rising water pinned the door shut, Danz said. Firefighters carried some children out of the building while others were loaded into an inflatable raft and pulled through the flooded parking lot.”},{“_id”:”WQLRFHQWRZBSDFQVUT7UUWNEWQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629413699486},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The children were put on a school bus and taken to nearby Sanders Elementary School, where their parents picked them up.”},{“_id”:”UEXM2ACQXBATZBRH4XOSBF6FFE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629413699487},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“Luckily, there were no injuries and everyone got out safe,” Danz said.”},{“subtype”:”twitter”,”referent”:{“referent_properties”:{“additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:1629414317769}},”provider”:”https://publish.twitter.com/oembed?url=”,”service”:”oembed”,”id”:”https://twitter.com/cobbcountyfire/status/1428479677933445121″,”type”:”twitter”},”_id”:”BMU3LXI4PFBBNBX6SM4SVA7VWE”,”raw_oembed”:{“author_name”:”Cobb County Fire”,”cache_age”:”3153600000″,”provider_url”:”https://twitter.com”,”type”:”twitter”,”version”:”1.0″,”url”:”https://twitter.com/cobbcountyfire/status/1428479677933445121″,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/cobbcountyfire”,”width”:550,”html”:”

Parent reunification has been set up at Sanders Elementary. Thank you @CobbSchools #swiftwater #rescue #CCFES #cobbcountyfire pic.twitter.com/yadBiEK9Q1

— Cobb County Fire (@cobbcountyfire) August 19, 2021nn”,”_id”:”https://twitter.com/cobbcountyfire/status/1428479677933445121″,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:1629414317769},”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”height”:null},”type”:”oembed_response”},{“_id”:”SUGU5GEC2NCBTMG2C7Z7TZ3HUE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629413699489},”type”:”text”,”content”:”There were reports of several downed trees across Atlanta and DeKalb County on Thursday afternoon, and one driver had to be rescued from their vehicle after driving into high water on Northside Drive, Channel 2 Action News reported.”},{“_id”:”QGD5SV5ZJBCI7IXCCLFTNZMYF4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629410203630},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The heavy rain has cleared out of metro Atlanta, but flooding remains, Channel 2 meteorologist Brad Nitz said.”},{“subtype”:”twitter”,”referent”:{“referent_properties”:{“additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:1629414317772}},”provider”:”https://publish.twitter.com/oembed?url=”,”service”:”oembed”,”id”:”https://twitter.com/BradNitzWSB/status/1428448855788556292″,”type”:”twitter”},”_id”:”CZSUEN3UB5AWZCL6PRTAZPWOMI”,”raw_oembed”:{“author_name”:”Brad Nitz”,”cache_age”:”3153600000″,”provider_url”:”https://twitter.com”,”type”:”twitter”,”version”:”1.0″,”url”:”https://twitter.com/BradNitzWSB/status/1428448855788556292″,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/BradNitzWSB”,”width”:550,”html”:”

Storm impacts in Buckhead:

Window washer stuck 15 stories up on the side of a building in Buckhead, near Lenox.

Reports of trees down Northside Dr and W. Paces Ferry Rd.

Power outages in Buckhead.

— Brad Nitz (@BradNitzWSB) August 19, 2021nn”,”_id”:”https://twitter.com/BradNitzWSB/status/1428448855788556292″,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:1629414317772},”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”height”:null},”type”:”oembed_response”},{“_id”:”6IXUSLDAJVFZBFN2G67WH5LC3E”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629410203632},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“The ground was already so saturated,” Nitz said. “Rivers, streams and creeks were up because of the heavy rain that we had from Tropical Depression Fred. You add onto that these very heavy downpours, and that’s what led to that flash flooding.””},{“_id”:”BBGFPA2VTVHKDINKY7UEHJAOB4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629410203633},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Cobb fire officials are urging drivers in Austell to avoid the area between Anderson Mill Road between Austell Road and Brookwood Drive. When encountering a flooded road, Danz said it’s always better to be safe than sorry.”},{“_id”:”UYJGZUIJTFEK7IZJQEJ2D74BDU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629413699494},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“Don’t try to cross roadways that are flooded,” he said. “If you can’t see the bottom of the water and you’re not sure how deep it is, it’s best to go around.””},{“subtype”:”twitter”,”referent”:{“referent_properties”:{“additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:1629414317776}},”provider”:”https://publish.twitter.com/oembed?url=”,”service”:”oembed”,”id”:”https://twitter.com/cobbcountyfire/status/1428456835149934592″,”type”:”twitter”},”_id”:”VV4NV5VR7RERPGM2FPO26TMTKI”,”raw_oembed”:{“author_name”:”Cobb County Fire”,”cache_age”:”3153600000″,”provider_url”:”https://twitter.com”,”type”:”twitter”,”version”:”1.0″,”url”:”https://twitter.com/cobbcountyfire/status/1428456835149934592″,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/cobbcountyfire”,”width”:550,”html”:”

@cobbcountyfire and @cobbpolice1 are on scene evacuating a daycare on the 1400 block of Anderson Mill Rd. Avoid the area between Austell Rd/Brookwood Dr the road is closed pic.twitter.com/y3SKEyxk5O

— Cobb County Fire (@cobbcountyfire) August 19, 2021nn”,”_id”:”https://twitter.com/cobbcountyfire/status/1428456835149934592″,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:1629414317776},”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”height”:null},”type”:”oembed_response”},{“_id”:”UAEX7WLGBBCWBGWZWB2WVQU73Y”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629410203635},”type”:”text”,”content”:”
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Both Cobb police and the GBI said a handgun was recovered from Brown’s vehicle, but authorities did not say if Brown pointed the gun at officers.”},{“_id”:”KVYCAT73KRFEBL4KMRLLXFVFKI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629402388664},”type”:”text”,”content”:”On the video, which was shared with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, officers could be heard telling him to put his hands up before a Cobb officer opened fire through the driver’s side window. “},{“_id”:”6JCUJ7INEFG3HNXBGL5KYHNMM4″,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”OXN6CLYE4BETJBF4S74YIHF6J4″},”type”:”interstitial_link”,”content”:”Austell man dead after police chase leads to shooting in Marietta”,”url”:”https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-marietta-road-shut-down-after-police-shooting/N4WLG4VBVNDMTOECHITXR23STQ/”},{“_id”:”LNICVGOBR5CX7IDQCZWFCU4RIQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[]},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The chase began shortly before 4 p.m. when officers spotted Brown’s car driving erratically and attempted a traffic stop, Cobb Police Chief Tim Cox said. 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Officers spotted Brown’s car along Ridge Run in Marietta and tried to pull it over “in reference to an active domestic dispute,” the warrant said. 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Drivers were urged to take Atlanta Road or South Cobb Drive to get around the delays, which caused issues for school buses trying to take students home. Marietta City Schools diverted some buses to Park Street Elementary, holding students there until they could be picked up by their parents, the school district said.”},{“_id”:”7CEZSFOZC5HZBKTOEHQMIZNKRA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629402388670},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Brown’s death was the 62nd police shooting the GBI was asked to investigate this year and the second fatal shooting involving a Cobb County police officer, records show. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution also tracks officer-involved shootings that don’t involve the GBI, and those numbers sometimes differ from the GBI’s tally.”},{“_id”:”KG4DXO7NDNHI7E2F2NYKHJ3T3Q”,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”AH27CMASA5GOTLRCTUTS2U2Z6M”},”type”:”raw_html”,”content”:”“},{“_id”:”PLTNWUJBOJHY7CJR2AWCLOXDTU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629402388672},”type”:”text”,”content”:”— Please return to The Atlanta-Journal Constitution for updates.”}],”display_date”:”2021-08-19T20:08:05.197Z”,”headlines”:{“basic”:”Cellphone video captures deadly police shooting after Cobb chase”},”first_publish_date”:”2021-08-19T20:08:05.197Z”,”taxonomy”:{“sections”:[{“path”:”/news”,”parent”:{“default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”_website”:”ajc”,”parent_id”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”name”:”News”,”description”:”Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles – Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”_id”:”/news”,”additional_properties”:{“original”:{“parent”:{“AmpNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”BottomNav”:null,”TopNavRedesign”:null,”SectionMap”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”LoggedOutMenu”:null,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”TopNav”:null,”TopicsBar”:null,”ComposerNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”site”:{“site_url”:”https://www.ajc.com/news/”,”section_comments_enabled”:”Yes”,”site_description”:”Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles – Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”site_title”:”Atlanta GA News | Top News Page”},”navigation”:{“nav_title”:”News”},”inactive”:false,”node_type”:”section”,”_website”:”ajc”,”name”:”News”,”Sponsor”:{“sponsor_url_open_new_tab”:”true”,”sponsor_desktop_banner”:””,”sponsor_mobile_banner”:””,”sponsor_url”:””},”_id”:”/news”,”ancestors”:{“AmpNav”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”default”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”BottomNav”:[],”TopNavRedesign”:[],”SectionMap”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”LoggedOutMenu”:[],”MainMenuRedesign2021″:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”TopicsBar”:[]},”order”:{“AmpNav”:1001,”default”:1001,”SectionMap”:1018,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:1001,”ComposerNav”:1135}}},”_website_section_id”:”ajc./news”,”type”:”section”,”version”:”0.6.0″}],”primary_section”:{“path”:”/news”,”name”:”News”},”tags”:[{“text”:”breaking-news.ajc”},{“text”:”crime-news.ajc”},{“text”:”publicsafety.ajc”},{“text”:”atlanta-now”},{“text”:”teamjennifer”},{“text”:”marietta”},{“text”:”cobb county”},{“text”:”ajc top news”}]},”type”:”story”,”last_updated_date”:”2021-08-19T20:08:05.658Z”,”canonical_url”:”/news/cellphone-video-captures-deadly-police-shooting-after-cobb-chase/AG4IGFRW65HTLILFLPUUYCSLHY/”,”promo_items”:{“basic”:{“promo_image”:{“url”:”https://d1fegwn2wjh0cs.cloudfront.net/08-19-2021/t_9603d977cc8e46ec9205d6b29a6351cd_name_t_81a978eb2faa4c9d9ff0f5ca4bc34639_name_Cobb_police_shooting_4__scaled.jpg”},”credits”:{},”headlines”:{“basic”:”Cobb County Police involved fatal shooting”},”type”:”video”,”promo_items”:{“basic”:{“width”:1920,”caption”:”Video still of a Cobb County Police Department involved in a fatal shooting.”,”type”:”image”,”url”:”https://d1fegwn2wjh0cs.cloudfront.net/08-19-2021/t_9603d977cc8e46ec9205d6b29a6351cd_name_t_81a978eb2faa4c9d9ff0f5ca4bc34639_name_Cobb_police_shooting_4__scaled.jpg”,”height”:1080}}}},”_id”:”AG4IGFRW65HTLILFLPUUYCSLHY”},{“content_elements”:[{“_id”:”A3MXXEUJCFH5FBNHEQ4HZULEAM”,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”MT6XXWD2XVACRO4R5DCVUW6TFM”},”type”:”raw_html”,”content”:”“},{“_id”:”5764VS52BNDDRAZKRSSI4BAHP4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1594809275138},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Breaking news coverage from our news partner Channel 2 Action News.”}],”display_date”:”2021-08-19T16:51:00Z”,”headlines”:{“basic”:”WATCH LIVE: Gov. 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*Officer Involved Shooting – Traffic Alert*
Powder Springs Rd between Garrison Rd and Sandtown Rd is shutdown due to an officer involved shooting. More information to come.

*Media*
PIO is headed to the scene. @cbs46 @FOX5Atlanta @11AliveNews @wsbtv @ajc @mdjonline

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VanPelt used false financial records from multiple companies to secure more than $6 million in PPP loans, investigators said.”},{“_id”:”C73YMOPJQ5DZNHHRO2WA22LEOM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629324034250},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Federal agents were able to seize about $2.1 million of the money VanPelt received from the fraudulent loans, Erskine said.”},{“_id”:”VZXFYDHJHZDPPDEZ55DK7NA5RY”,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”XMUUBGVS4ZEBTPUBFQ4MCKSA7Y”},”type”:”interstitial_link”,”content”:”FBI seizes nearly $2 million from Roswell firms accused of PPP fraud”,”url”:”https://www.ajc.com/news/business/fbi-seizes-nearly-2-million-from-roswell-firms-accused-of-ppp-fraud/QBEPOYB5KVDGXOT6EPAEVJFQY4/”},{“_id”:”3WDQNWIHYVHDDJHOD4YD6QI2NY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629324034251},”type”:”text”,”content”:”VanPelt, who legally changed her name from Ellen Corkrum in July 2016, submitted PPP loan applications under both her current and former names, Erskine said. She applied for loans for six different companies she owns or controls: Georgia Nephrology Physician Associated; United Healthcare Group & Co.; Nephrology Network Group LLC; First Corporate International; Corkrum Consolidated Inc.; and Kiwi International Inc.”},{“_id”:”ZZRHUR2JVZACLDLCG3IYF6VNGY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629324034252},”type”:”text”,”content”:”In each PPP loan application, VanPelt falsely represented the average monthly payroll and number of employees working for each company, Erskine said. She also included false IRS records and bank statements. In total, VanPelt requested nearly $8 million in PPP funds and was awarded a little more than $6 million.”},{“_id”:”H5HZYQUZOJEMXMH6OP5LPUVH6U”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629324034253},”type”:”text”,”content”:”PPP loans are granted from a COVID-19 relief fund established by the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. 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She was formerly a high-ranking government official in the African nation of Liberia, according to reports.”},{“_id”:”SUB4C34ECZGVTHQ6LK44J36FFI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629331053943},”type”:”text”,”content”:”She was previously indicted in Liberia under her previous name on multiple charges related to corruption and financial fraud, according to FrontPage Africa, an independent newspaper based in Monrovia.”},{“_id”:”Y2DLPXYLUZHMPJZCIM6ZF7YMI4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629329406716},”type”:”text”,”content”:”VanPelt was appointed as the managing director of the Liberia Airports Authority before she was indicted in 2013 on charges of economic sabotage, criminal facilitation, conspiracy to defraud the government, and making unauthorized transfers of funds from government accounts, FrontPage Africa reported.”},{“_id”:”GYUCARXQDFHVFFXAPRMT7WWDJI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629329406717},”type”:”text”,”content”:”According to a 2011 interview in The Citizen, the Harvard Kennedy School’s student newspaper, VanPelt said she was a Black Hawk helicopter pilot in the U.S. military before becoming a commercial airline pilot. She had gotten her MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and planned to join the Liberian government once she finished her Masters in Public Administration at Harvard, she said. 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Polite Jr of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division said. “PPP funds should be reserved for legitimate businesses and their hard-working employees who have suffered economically as a result of the pandemic.””},{“_id”:”W7KQXEA7MJC27OTHR6XDYAGL3Q”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629329406721},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“The Paycheck Protection Program helps businesses keep their workforces employed during the COVID-19 crisis,” Erskine said. “When these funds are diverted by fraud, such as in this case, workers and the businesses that employ them unfortunately suffer.””},{“_id”:”YIADLMMLTRFL3HJ552V5QP6YEM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629329406722},”type”:”text”,”content”:”VanPelt’s sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 4 before U.S. District Judge Mark H. 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He was one of several bystanders who called 911. Within minutes, dozens of officers arrived and roped off the parking lot. The Kroger closed for several hours Tuesday evening and residents were urged to avoid the shopping center as detectives collected evidence from the scene.”},{“_id”:”Y3YJTK6KBNBIXKQTXM6WUQSMH4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629326137194},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Sandy Springs police said they are still reviewing evidence and speaking with witnesses, including the surviving victim.”},{“_id”:”SDHJGTKDPVAALC4NUYQACHPF6A”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629326137195},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Lyda, who has a 10-year-old and a 13-year-old, said he hadn’t seen that sort of violence since moving to the area from Atlanta.”},{“_id”:”QAQWWTI6QZGEXFVHCK7PITJLOQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629326137196},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“I’ve never seen anything such as that,” he told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “It’s a haircut my kids will always remember.””},{“_id”:”TLJGXON7AVEZZGMVOLD6325HJI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1629326137197},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Anyone with information about Tuesday’s deadly shooting is asked to call Sandy Springs detectives at 770-551-6939 or email to JPearson@SandySpringsGa.Gov.”}],”display_date”:”2021-08-18T22:40:30.615Z”,”headlines”:{“basic”:”Deadly shooting at Sandy Springs Kroger was not random, authorities say”},”first_publish_date”:”2021-08-18T22:40:30.615Z”,”taxonomy”:{“sections”:[{“path”:”/news”,”parent”:{“default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”_website”:”ajc”,”parent_id”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”name”:”News”,”description”:”Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles – Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”_id”:”/news”,”additional_properties”:{“original”:{“parent”:{“AmpNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”BottomNav”:null,”TopNavRedesign”:null,”SectionMap”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”LoggedOutMenu”:null,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”TopNav”:null,”TopicsBar”:null,”ComposerNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”site”:{“site_url”:”https://www.ajc.com/news/”,”section_comments_enabled”:”Yes”,”site_description”:”Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles – Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”site_title”:”Atlanta GA News | Top News Page”},”navigation”:{“nav_title”:”News”},”inactive”:false,”node_type”:”section”,”_website”:”ajc”,”name”:”News”,”Sponsor”:{“sponsor_url_open_new_tab”:”true”,”sponsor_desktop_banner”:””,”sponsor_mobile_banner”:””,”sponsor_url”:””},”_id”:”/news”,”ancestors”:{“AmpNav”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”default”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”BottomNav”:[],”TopNavRedesign”:[],”SectionMap”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”LoggedOutMenu”:[],”MainMenuRedesign2021″:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”TopicsBar”:[]},”order”:{“AmpNav”:1001,”default”:1001,”SectionMap”:1018,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:1001,”ComposerNav”:1135}}},”_website_section_id”:”ajc./news”,”type”:”section”,”version”:”0.6.0″}],”primary_section”:{“path”:”/news”,”name”:”News”},”tags”:[{“text”:”breaking-news.ajc”},{“text”:”crime-news.ajc”},{“text”:”publicsafety.ajc”},{“text”:”atlanta-now”},{“text”:”teamjennifer”},{“text”:”sandy springs”},{“text”:”north fulton”}]},”type”:”story”,”last_updated_date”:”2021-08-18T22:42:16.127Z”,”canonical_url”:”/news/deadly-shooting-at-sandy-springs-kroger-was-not-random-authorities-say/Z4KYZME5VBFGZBAILJEOYXN2FY/”,”promo_items”:{“basic”:{“credits”:{“affiliation”:[{“name”:”JOHN SPINK / AJC”,”type”:”author”}],”by”:[{“name”:”John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com”,”type”:”author”}]},”subtitle”:”AAJC 081821 kroger”,”width”:5019,”caption”:”Sandy Springs police said Tuesday’s deadly shooting was the result of a drug deal gone wrong.”,”type”:”image”,”url”:”https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/2GMVG2OX3P3UFPQEKX4COU5E3M.jpg”,”height”:2777}},”_id”:”Z4KYZME5VBFGZBAILJEOYXN2FY”}],”additional_properties”:{“took”:43,”timed_out”:false},”count”:10000,”next”:30,”_id”:”2f16d1a8b86dacc499cea1f69789b66047925652c7e10d1c0a5eac0fa66e5079″},”expires”:1629732650757,”lastModified”:1629732350757}}};Fusion.layout=”article-basic”;Fusion.metas={};Fusion.outputType=”default”;Fusion.template=”template/article”;Fusion.tree={“collection”:”layouts”,”type”:”article-basic”,”props”:{“collection”:”layouts”,”type”:”article-basic”,”id”:”article-basic”,”childProps”:[{“collection”:”sections”,”id”:0}]},”children”:[{“collection”:”sections”,”props”:{“collection”:”sections”,”id”:0},”children”:[]}]};Fusion.spa=false;Fusion.spaEnabled=false;