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An 8-year-old girl was hospitalized after being mauled by a neighbor's pit bull early Monday evening.
The girl's legs were bit repeatedly by the pit bull/Rotweiller mix who broke his chain and ran after her, said Marcus Hodge, spokesman for the DeKalb County Police Department. Her legs were covered in blood when her mother — spotting the attack from her home on the 3000 block of Patti Parkway — interceded, bashing the dog on the head with a pipe. The canine retreated and was later captured by the county's animal control unit, Hodge said.
Late Monday police had not released the names of the girl or her mother or the dog's owner.
A rush-hour chase through south DeKalb County ended Friday in a car accident and a shoot-out, leaving one man wounded, police said.
A sport-utility vehicle collided with another car around 6:30 p.m. at Flat Shoals Road and Keystone Drive, and two other cars began firing at the SUV, police spokesman Marcus Hodge said.
"It appears that the Range Rover was being followed," Hodge said. "[The driver] tried to make a quick turn into an apartment complex and hit a Mustang. That's when the men in the cars following him started firing."
The man accused of killing two DeKalb County police officers in January might have been sent to prison six months earlier except for an oversight by a probation officer and a charge dropped because of a missed court date.
The state Department of Corrections said Friday it has disciplined a probation officer and is reviewing all operations of its DeKalb office as a result of its failure to react to the June 30 arrest of William Woodard for two alleged felonies, burglary and criminal damage to property, at a home in the Atlanta portion of DeKalb County.
Woodard, who also has used the spelling "Woodward," was on six years' probation for his third felony drug conviction when he was arrested. But the judge who put Woodard on probation — and who could have sent him to prison for violating probation — was not told about the new arrest. And the judges who considered the new burglary case were not told about his probation.
The eight children left behind by two DeKalb County police officers slain in January led the pledge of allegiance at an annual police memorial ceremony Thursday.
The families of DeKalb County Police Department officers Eric Barker and Ricky Bryant were among several hundred people, many in uniform, who gathered on the Decatur Square at a monument honoring officers who died in the line of duty.
The most recent names engraved on the monument are those of Barker and Bryant. They were shot to death Jan. 16 while working an extra security job in an apartment complex.
DeKalb cops: HIV-positive man raped, assaulted women
DeKalb County police say an HIV-positive man sexually assaulted at least two women he lured to a vacant apartment by placing dating ads on the popular Craigslist web site.
Allen Jamar McDowell, 18, who listed an address off Covington Highway near Avondale Estates, is accused in separate incidents at a Kensington Road apartment near his home in March and April. One victim was raped, and the other was robbed and sexually assaulted, police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said Tuesday.
McDowell also is charged under a reckless conduct law which applies to people who know they have the virus which causes AIDS.
An employee at a DeKalb County medical clinic was shot and seriously wounded Tuesday morning, police said.
DeKalb police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said the shooting occurred about 9 a.m. in the parking lot of the North DeKalb Health Center, in the 3800 block of Clairmont Road near DeKalb-Peachtree Airport.
"According to witnesses, a gentleman who worked inside one of the clinics was on his way in to work when the suspect came out of the woodline and fired multiple shots," Parish said. The 30-year-old victim was shot at least once in the neck, she said.
Nearly 150 laptop computers were stolen from a nonprofit agency that gives computers to students in poor areas, police and an official with Computers for Youth said Friday.
The New York-based organization expanded to metro Atlanta last May with an office in Lithonia. It was supposed to deliver laptops to 120 families at a west Atlanta charter school Saturda.
But Jeanne Artime, program manager for Computers for Youth-Atlanta, said she arrived at her office and warehouse Friday morning and found they had been ransacked.
Man dies outside LaVista Waffle House after shooting
DeKalb County police Wednesday were investigating the early morning shooting of a man who died in the parking lot of a LaVista Road Waffle House.
Shortly after 2 a.m., a man drove to the 24-hour restaurant at Lavista and Northlake Parkway, "and ran into the Waffle House and said that the passenger in his vehicle was shot," DeKalb police spokesman Marcus Hodge said.
"One of the employees ran outside and began CPR on that person," Hodge said. When police and medical pesonnel arrived, the 20-year-old man had died from a gunshot wound, Hodge said.
The DeKalb County police SWAT team was sent to a house off Glenwood Road Monday afternoon after officers responding to a burglary noticed someone still inside the home.
A neighbor called 911 about 12:15 p.m. to report the burglary at the house in the 1700 block of Terry Mill Road, in a neighborhood just north of I-20, DeKalb police spokesman Marcus Hodge said.
Officers observed someone inside, and when police contacted the homeowner, they were told there were several guns and ammunition inside the house, Hodge said.
