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Police: Albany State RB killed in break-in
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 04/29/06 08:20 AM
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ALBANY — Police say an Albany State University running back was shot and killed after he broke into a house.
Albany police spokesman Lieutenant Kenn Singleton says 21-year-old Antonio Atkins and an unknown man are suspected of breaking into the house early yesterday morning.
Atkins’ body has been sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab in Moultrie for an autopsy. He would have entered his senior year at Albany State this fall.
According to a police report, Johnathan Young, a barber at the Marine Corps Logistics Base-Albany, says he shot one man with a shotgun after two men entered the home’s front door by force.
The home’s other occupant, Michael R. Thomas, told police the men came into the house and tried to rob them.
Albany State University’s head football coach, Mike White, says Atkins was a good football player that he will miss.
Atkins made the team at Albany State at a spring tryout and was a walk-on his freshman year. As a walk-on, he rushed for one-thousand-138 yards and 14 touchdowns and 139 yards receiving. He was awarded a scholarship after his freshman season.
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