A man shot and killed Friday night on Sylvan Road in southwest Atlanta was identified Saturday as 22-year-old Andre Smith of Atlanta.
About 9 p.m. Friday, Smith was found dead between two buildings at the New Park at Sylvan Apartments, Atlanta police Officer Kim Jones said in an emailed statement.
According to Smith’s family, “he had just come home from work and had walked across Sylvan to go the convenience store when the shooting occurred,” Jones told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
No one was in custody and the shooting remains under investigation.
Alexis Stevens
Crash with Atlanta police car kills passenger
A 57-year-old man died early Saturday after a police officer crashed into a minivan as it was making a left turn in south Atlanta.
The man, Aaron Brown Sr., was sitting in the front passenger seat of a Mercury Villager when the accident occurred on Cleveland Avenue, Atlanta police Officer Kim Jones said.
The driver and a rear-seat passenger suffered moderate injuries, and the officer sustained minor injuries, she said.
Police will investigate whether alcohol or speed were factors in the collision, she said. Authorities did not identify the officer involved.
Mark Niesse
Armed robbery suspect sought
Police searched a large wooded area in south Forsyth County Saturday for an armed man suspected of robbing an Alpharetta convenience store in the early hours of the morning.
The suspect, identified as Kinneth Battle, drove to a residence after the robbery and ran into a deputy as he fled through the dark into a nearby wooded area, said George Gordon, a spokesman for the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety. Battle appeared to be armed with an AR-15 rifle or similar firearm, police said.
At least 45 deputies and SWAT team members from multiple jurisdictions were tracking Battle, who was believed to be inside a mostly wooded area near Ga. 400 along Atlanta Highway, said Deputy Doug Rainwater of the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office.
Battle and another man allegedly ran into an Alpharetta BP convenience store after 2 a.m. Saturday, jumped over the counter and snatched the cash register or the drawer of the cash register, Gordon said.
After they drove away, the store clerk provided the tag number of their car, and a Forsyth County deputy located the vehicle and followed it to a residence.
Battle eluded police, but the other unidentified suspect was arrested as he hid inside the vehicle, authorities said.
Mark Niesse
Suspect in shootout found at Grady
Authorities were searching for the wrong person in Friday’s chase and shootout with Rockdale County sheriff’s deputies in DeKalb County, a Rockdale sheriff’s spokesman said Saturday.
The mix-up began when someone pistol-whipped a man about 10 a.m. Friday outside an apartment in the 2500 block of Golfview Terrace and took his tan Lincoln Town Car. The carjacking victim, Rockdale sheriff’s investigator Michael Camp said, “put the guy that we issued the lookout for in the (stolen) car.”
That was 23-year-old Deonte Douglas Huddleston, the man authorities originally identified as the suspect.
DeKalb police joined Rockdale in the search for Huddleston, but by Friday evening Rockdale authorities received a tip that the actual suspect injured in a shootout with deputies after a chase was a 16-year-old acquaintance of Huddleston who was seeking treatment at Grady Memorial Hospital, Camp said.
Camp said Saturday that officials now believe three people — the teenager, Huddleston and an unidentified woman — went to an area near the scene of the carjacking in one car, parked a couple streets over and “the 16-year-old suspect is the one who ultimately took” the Town Car.
The teen suspect’s injuries do not appear to be life-threatening, Camp said.
While their “biggest goal was to get the guy involved in the shooting chase, we’re still actively searching for Huddleston and the unidentified female,” Camp said.
Rodney Thrash
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