ATL Overnight: Man shot to death at bus stop

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By George Mathis

April 22, 2015

A man was shot and killed while standing at a MARTA bus stop, Atlanta police say. Details were limited, but police said the unidentified man on Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway was shot Wednesday night by a person who got out of a car and fired a gun multiple times. A child with the man at the bus stop was not injured.

Divers will resume searching the Chatahoochee River for the body of a man believed to have drowned Tuesday. The search will continue at daybreak at Sandy Point Park in Cobb County.

Atlanta police and Atlanta Public Schools are investigating whether two male students were beaten because they are gay. The Carver School of Technology students, ages 16 and 17, were beaten by about 20 boys who made homophobic slurs, according to a witness account in the police report. Both boys were taken to a hospital for medical treatment.

Rapper Waka Flocka Flame is running for president, or so he claims in a profanity-laced public announcement. The Atlanta native is too young to qualify for the nation's highest office and has a lengthy criminal record, but says he wants to legalize marijuana and make children learn his songs.

A third child has died after a powerful crash DeKalb police believe was related to drag racing. James Benford and Melanie Putnam are charged with vehicular homicide in the deaths. The two drivers were nearly side-by-side and traveling at approximately 100 mph when they struck a car driven by Cazhara Lovett, police say. Lovett, 30, was injured in the April 12 wreck on Moreland Avenue near the Starlight Theater and two of her children, Lauren Coleman, 3, and Jordan Coleman, 4, were killed. Family members said Tuesday that a third child, 6-year-old Jaylen Coleman, died Saturday.

Atlanta Braves pitcher Trevor Cahill was roughed up by the New York Mets Tuesday night. The local nine lost 7-1 after Cahill surrendered 4 runs in the 5th inning.

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Protesters took to the streets in Baltimore to protest the death of a black man who died after being taken into police custody. Freddie Gray, 25, suffered a fatal spinal-cord injury under mysterious circumstances after he was handcuffed and put in the back of a police van.

The head of the DEA resigned her position after it was revealed she did little to curtail the behavior of federal agents who joined in sex parties in South America that were paid for by drug cartels. Michele Leonhart said she would leave her post next month.

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