Obituaries

George Holliday points to the spot along a roadside in the Lake View Terrace section of Los Angeles where he videotaped Rodney King being beaten in April 1992, during a news conference in Los Angeles in 1997. Holliday, a plumber who gained local and national fame 30 years earlier when he used his video camera to tape the infamous Los Angeles police beating of motorist Rodney King in Lake View Terrace, has died from COVID-19, it was reported Monday, Sept. 20, 2021.

Man who filmed Rodney King beating in 1991 dies of COVID-19

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Actor and comedian Anthony “AJ” Johnson, who is most remembered for his role as the loud-mouthed panhandler Ezal in the 1995 comedy hit “Friday,” was found unresponsive in a Los Angeles store earlier this month and later pronounced dead, according to reports.

‘Friday’ actor Anthony ‘A.J.’ Johnson found dead in Los Angeles

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Former mayor of College Park Jack Longino died recently. He oversaw a period of revitalization in the city.

Jack Longino, 68, longtime College Park mayor dies

Chuck Close's first photorealist work, and still one of his best known, is a self-portrait in which he stares impassively back at the camera through plastic black-rimmed glasses. He has messy, stringy hair, his face is unshaved, and a cigarette with smoke rising from it juts from the corner of his mouth — a rebel with a new artistic cause.

Chuck Close, celebrated photorealist artist disgraced by scandal, dead at 81

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C.T. Martin speaks at a City Council meeting in 2011. Martin, who was one of the longest-service council members, died Saturday, May 8, 2021, at age 84. (Photo: Bob Andres/AJC)

C.T. Martin ‘was a fierce voice for the voiceless’

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Jan Stephens holds a letter written to her mother from her father, Sgt. 1st Class Lindsay Hester, who was one of nearly 100 U.S. troops aboard a charter plane that disappeared during a mission to Vietnam in 1962. (BRANDEN CAMP FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION)

Memorial to honor U.S. troops whose Vietnam-bound plane vanished in 1962

Winston Johnson, center, talks to his friend Coretta Scott King during an unidentified formal event. Johnson helped recruit King into the fight for LGBTQ equality.

Winston Johnson, key LGBTQ advocate, dies at 79

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Former Sen. David Gambrell has died

C.T. Martin speaks at a City Council meeting in 2011. Martin, who was one of the longest-service council members, died Saturday, May 8, 2021, at age 84. (Photo: Bob Andres/AJC)

C.T. Martin ‘was a fierce voice for the voiceless’

R.H. "Mac" McMichael II mentored many during his decades as a local and federal law-enforcement officer in Atlanta.

Robert ‘Mac’ McMichael, longtime Atlanta lawman, dies at 77

Douglas County restaurateur Scot Hudson was killed during stormy weather when a tree came down on his truck. (Family photo via Channel 2 Action News)

Restaurant owner’s storm-related death leaves ‘a dark cloud over Douglasville’

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