Christian Boone

Local news reporter

Christian Boone joined the AJC in 2008 covering cops. He has been with the digital department since its inception. Boone, an Atlanta native, graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in political science and later attended the University of Southern California's Graduate Screenwriting Program.

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Tuskegee mourns Mableton senior killed at off-campus party

No matter how tense the situation, his friends say, Bobby “B.J.” Smith kept smiling. The Tuskegee University senior was the type to stop fights, not start them, which made the news that he had been shot dead Friday night at an off-campus party all the more unsettling. “He was running ...

Texting while driving convictions on the rise

Texting while driving convictions in Georgia have risen dramatically in 2013, thanks largely to the work of one very determined Gwinnett County police officer. Officer Jesse Myers has written nearly 800 citations so far this year. Assuming most of those citations aren’t challenged — a safe assumption, according to traffic ...

Narconon of Georgia surrenders license, avoids prosecution

A Norcross drug treatment facility with ties to the Church of Scientology will avoid any potential criminal charges after surrendering its license to the state.But the investigation into allegations of insurance fraud by those running the facility isn’t over, Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter said.“Narconon as a corporate entity ...

The Narconon of Georgia Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center in Norcross.

Narconon of Georgia surrenders license, avoids prosecution

A controversial Norcross drug treatment facility with ties to the Church of Scientology will avoid any potential criminal charges after surrendering its license to the state. But the investigation into allegations of insurance fraud by those running the facility isn’t over, Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter said. “Narconon as ...

Sneiderman funds to remain frozen at least for now

A Fulton County judge on Friday ruled that Andrea Sneiderman will have to wait at least 90 days before she can claim her late husband’s estate totaling more than $2 million. Sneiderman’s in-laws sought to block her from claiming the $2.25 million that was frozen 14 months ago when she ...

Suspect in triple homicide still at large

A house guest suspected of fatally shooting three people in Gwinnett County remained on the run Wednesday, and police said they don’t know what prompted the triple homicide.The suspected shooter, Robert Bell, 33, fled on foot, police said, after allegedly using a gun similar to an AR-15 to kill Raynord ...

Robert E. Bell is wanted by Gwinnett police as a suspect on three counts of felony murder and one count of aggravated assault.

Police identify suspect, victims in Gwinnett shooting

Two adults and a child were killed and a fourth person wounded in a Sunday night domestic shooting in Gwinnett County, police said. The Gwinnett police are now searching for Robert E. Bell, 33, as a suspect in those killings. He is wanted on three counts of felony murder and ...

Fatal heroin overdoses on the rise in Georgia

Driving home from jail, where he had spent nearly two months following a DUI arrest, Grant Timbes told his best friend that he was done with drugs. When Timbes, 27, was arrested in October, his friends and family agreed not to bond him out, hoping that incarceration might be the ...

Raequel Penny is wanted by police for operating an unlicensed personal care facility in Marietta. More charges are pending against the woman whose whom police said was in “poor” condition.

Nurse charged with abuse, neglect of elderly patients in Marietta care home

A Cobb County nurse is accused of physically abusing elderly patients who police say were living in squalor at an unlicensed Marietta adult care home.Marietta police say they’ve accounted for six victims so far; two were located Wednesday at an unlicensed care home in Atlanta where they had been moved. ...

De'Marquise Elkins was found guilty of all charges at the Brunswick baby murder trial in Cobb Superior Court in Marietta on Friday.

Life without parole for Brunswick baby killer

The Brunswick 18-year-old convicted nearly two weeks ago of fatally shooting a toddler between the eyes was sentenced Thursday to spend the rest of his life in prison. De’Marquise Elkins was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in Glynn County Superior Court. He avoided the death penalty because ...