Hearing scheduled in Standard Bar slaying

By Kristi E. Swartz

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

An evidentiary hearing in the slaying of a Grant Park bartender will be held in Fulton County Superior Court at 9:30 today.

Police have charged Jonathan Redding, 17, of Atlanta with felony murder and other offenses in the Jan. 7 killing of John Henderson, who was gunned down at the Standard Food & Spirits on Memorial Drive.

Redding was arrested and charged in May. Police connected him to Henderson's killing after one of two guns used at the Grant Park bar was used days later in a home invasion.

Police continue to look for three more suspected gang members believed to be responsible for Henderson's death.

Police say Henderson, 27, and another bartender were getting ready to close the Standard when four to five armed men broke through the bar's glass door. Henderson was shot once in the head and twice in the leg.

Judge Kimberly Esmond Adams has been assigned to the case.