The 80-year-old tree that will most likely need to come down to make way for a makeover of downtown Avondale Estates could live on through its offspring.

The water oak that residents tried unsuccessfully to save in a city development plan has germinated so many acorns that, Friday afternoon, volunteers were able to dig up 34 seedlings.

Arborguard, a city-based business that issued one of two reports saying the oak was unsafe and needed to come down regardless of the development, will nurture the saplings until they are able to be replanted in about three years.

DORAVILLE

Camera found in bedroom vent

Staff at the Creekside Apartments in Doraville searched their 96-unit complex Friday after the arrest Wednesday of a maintenance worker charged with unlawful surveillance and criminal trespass. Investigators arrested Julio Rodriguez, 56, after a tenant discovered a remote-control camera in a vent in her bedroom ceiling, DeKalb County police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said.

FULTON COUNTY

Three qualify as Nichols jurors

Three more jurors were qualified out of 11 interviewed Friday during jury pool selection in the Brian Nichols murder trial. It was the proceedings' first day at Atlanta Municipal Court. The trial was moved from the Fulton County Courthouse because two of the killings Nichols is accused of committing happened in a courtroom there. A third happened outside the courthouse.

ROSWELL

Two arrested in grocer's killing

Roswell police announced Friday that two men have been arrested in the Jan. 26 robbery and shooting death of Lydia Alvarado, owner of the Azteca grocery store. David Alberto Perez-Luna, 31, of Salisbury Trail in Riverdale, and Samuel Armondo Boyce, 30, of Douglasville, each are charged with murder, armed robbery, false imprisonment and aggravated assault, according to Roswell police. Both men are originally from Panama and are thought to be in the U.S. legally, Roswell police Lt. James McGee said. Police continue to search for a third suspect.

MARIETTA

Sketches of suspects released

Police released sketches Friday of two men they believe were involved in the shooting death of a teenager. Witnesses helped a sketch artist come up with drawings of two young black males —- one with cropped hair, the other with longer hair —- involved in the shooting, Marietta police Det. Chris Lindsey said.

Two men in a dark Ford Explorer opened fire on 16-year-old Samuel "Dra" Steward about 9:40 p.m. Tuesday as he and a friend stood on Allgood Road.