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5 things to know: Meet the women who want to save Kelly Gissendaner from death

Kelly Gissendaner eats lunch in her 9-by-12 cell at Metro State Prison in Atlanta in July 2004. (BITA HONARVAR/AJC File Photo)

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Kelly Gissendaner eats lunch in her 9-by-12 cell at Metro State Prison in Atlanta in July 2004. (BITA HONARVAR/AJC File Photo)
Sept 23, 2015

Here are five things you need to know tonight:

1. One person was injured when shots were fired at a Snellville-area QuikTrip, according to Gwinnett County police. Investigators hope surveillance images will help identify the two gunmen. [Read more]

2. Georgia quarterback Greyson Lambert is dating the new Miss Georgia. [Read more]

3. Three days after his arrest on a DUI charge in one metro county, popular former Atlanta Falcon Jamal Anderson entered a not guilty plea for an alleged DUI in a neighboring county. [Read more]

4. A loose-knit collection of former female convicts credit Kelly Gissendaner with giving them hope behind bars, ministering to them through an air vent. They are urging the state to reconsider her death sentence and let her live out her days in prison instead. [Read more]

5. No chance of rain tonight, but how low will the low go? [Tonight's real-time forecast]

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