It’s ironic that the victim survived however many decades as an Animal Patrol Officer, yet it was a store robbery that got him in the end.

11Alive:

Police say a store employee has died after trying to fend off a robbery suspect with his own gun in Gwinnett County.

Gwinnett County Police responded to the Hamilton Mill Road area outside of Buford to reports of a person shot at an O’Reilly Auto Parts store around 8 p.m. That’s where they believe a black male suspect entered the store followed by a female employee after she had helped a person outside.

The suspect then demanded the cash drawer which got the attention of a male employee who came out of the back and attempted to draw his weapon. The suspect responded by opening fire and killing the male employee.

He then escaped and drove away toward I-85 which is about a half-mile away. Authorities aren’t sure, however, if he actually got on the interstate. However, they don’t believe he got away with any money.

On Thursday, police identified the victim as Felix Cosme, 63, of Dacula. He is a retired Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Deputy, they said.

Felix Cosme.

Well yeah, if you hire negroes, this sort of thing is just going to happen.

AJC:

A Gwinnett County Kroger employee who was allegedly beaten and stabbed by a disgruntled coworker has been released from the hospital.

Maria Mosher, 59, suffered two skull fractures, five broken ribs and countless stab wounds Nov. 17 when she was attacked by 21-year-old Akin Williams in the break room of the Grayson Highway store, Gwinnett police said.

Akin Williams.

A detective testified Tuesday that Williams came in on his day off, cornered his supervisor and attacked her for nearly an hour, Channel 2 Action News reported.

When officers arrived at the store, they found Mosher covered in blood on the floor of the break room, AJC.com previously reported. Broken furniture was scattered about and the Kroger employee had numerous stab wounds to her neck, hands and legs.

According to police, Mosher made several attempts to leave the break room during the assault, but each time she got near the door, Williams kicked her in the head and dragged her away from it. The woman lost consciousness several times during the attack, which was captured on the store’s surveillance system.

“She was trying to leave,” Gwinnett detective Yayoi Huggins testified Tuesday. “She made another attempt to go up to the door to leave the break room and he again kicked her in the face and dragged her away from the door.”

The blade used to stab the woman was a pocketknife that Williams brought from home, authorities said.

Nearly an hour into the attack, another employee walked in and saw the woman’s injuries, Channel 2 reported.

Williams allegedly told them his supervisor fell and that he was “taking care of things,” the detective testified. Police said he also attempted to clean up the scene by soaking up the blood with towels that were later found shoved into a cart.

…

Williams was initially arrested for aggravated assault, but police added charges of kidnapping, false imprisonment and aggravated battery after speaking with witnesses and reviewing the surveillance footage.

Williams remains held at the Gwinnett County jail without bond.

Maria Mosher.

Keely Kilpatrick.

I’m unconvinced.

Niggers don’t even clean themselves, let alone their guns.

New York Post:

A Georgia woman is accused of fatally shooting her roommate while cleaning a gun.

Keely Kilpatrick 26, was still at the Wynhall Drive home in Gwinnett County — about 20 miles northeast of Atlanta — when police responded at about 6:30 p.m. Saturday and found her roommate, Dixie Cowe, 43, with a gunshot wound to the chest, police said.

Police determined that Kilpatrick had told her mother, who also lived at the residence, that she was going downstairs to clean a firearm when the mom heard a “loud noise sounding like a gunshot,” cops said in a news release.

She ran downstairs to check on her daughter, who “immediately told her that the gun accidentally went off and struck [Cowe],” the release continued.

Cowe later died from her injuries at a hospital.

Kilpatrick and her mother are cooperating with investigators, police said. Kilpatrick was charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter and remains held without bond at the Gwinnett County Detention Center, jail records show.

Brianna Johnson, Kilpatrick’s friend, told WSB-TV she believes that the shooting wasn’t intentional.

Dixie Cowe.

The family of a Gwinnett County woman who was stabbed to death in December 2013 as she helped in a custody exchange is speaking out now that the suspect has pleaded guilty.

Wolf Griffin entered his plea Friday in Gwinnett Superior Court preventing the case from going to trial. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Griffin brutally stabbed 61-year-old Peggie Lynn Robinson as she dropped off his six-year-old son who considered her like his grandmother.

The child’s mother, Cecelia Hebert, is the girlfriend of Robinson’s adult son, Dennis, and was involved in a bitter custody battle at the time with Griffin.

Griffin told police he saw Hebert’s face as he delivered each blow.

An Atlanta Falcons football player has been kicked off the team after being accused of killing his girlfriend’s dog.

According to a spokesperson with Gwinnett County police, 23-year-old Prince Shembo’s girlfriend called authorities on April 19 to report that Shembo killed her dog.

Shembo was a linebacker with the Falcons.

According to the police spokesperson, Shembo’s girlfriend said that she took her Yorkie to Shembo’s apartment on April 15 and left the two alone.

When his girlfriend returned, she said she found her dog unresponsive, according to the police spokesperson.

The dog was taken to an animal hospital where it later died.

Shembo’s girlfriend said that in a conversation with him by phone the next day, he admitted to kicking the dog.

After an investigation by Gwinnett County police, an arrest warrant was issued for Shembo Friday, charging him with aggravated cruelty to animals.

The police spokesperson said the dog had “significant internal injuries” and died due to blunt force trauma.

The Falcons released the following statement Friday afternoon:

“We are aware of the charges that have been filed against Prince Shembo. We are extremely disappointed that one of our players is involved in something like this. Accordingly, we have decided to waive Prince Shembo.”

Shembo turned himself in to police Friday night. CBS46 captured him walking into the Gwinnett County Jail, but he had no comment.

A Griffin man was booked in the Gwinnett County jail on Friday and charged in connection with a homicide in Auburn last week.

Marquavis Benton, 26, was charged with armed robbery, murder and held for other charges out of Spaulding County and held without bond.

Brian Whitfield, 45, was killed Dec. 6 during a believed home invasion-robbery at his home on Flowery Branch Road in Auburn. Gwinnett police previously said a 2005 Dodge Ram “Rumblebee” edition was stolen after the home invasion.

Gwinnett Police Sgt. Rich Long said Saturday that Griffin City Police, who stopped Benton’s car and detained him without incident at about 4 p.m. on Friday, was helpful to homicide investigators, and added that the investigation remains open.

On Wednesday, police said the truck, which has a yellow stripe and unique graphics near its rear bumper, had been discovered overnight in western Atlanta. The vehicle was partially stripped of its radio and tires.

Long said investigators did not release if any evidence collected from the abandoned stolen truck was useful to arrest Benton.

The teen punched by a fellow classmate in school went home from the hospital Friday.

David Egan’s nose was damaged so bad he needed reconstructive surgery.

As you can imagine, he’s still trying to make sense of it all but David Egan says neither he nor his dad want what happened to him to be swept under the carpet.

Egan said, “I’m feeling a lot better now that the doctors and everyone was there and they helped me out. I just want to go home and lay down and stuff.”

After 3 nights in the hospital 16 year-old David Egan went home, but he still wants to talk about the locker room punch on Tuesday. Not once, but twice, recorded on a cell phone. David’s cheekbone was fractured, his nose shattered and tooth chipped.

“He just came up to me and started asking me a question and in the middle of my sentence, he just hit me and I blacked out. And I really don’t know what happened next. Just woke up and I was on the way here so,” Egan said.

Gwinnett County Schools has confirmed that the student now charged with battery reported to a teacher the day before that his shoes had been stolen and was accusing David of taking them.

So where were the adults during this? The school district has told 11Alive adults are in the area but they may not be in the locker room the entire time while students are actually changing.

And about the other kids in the locker room? Egan said, “A lot of them were my friends, I was really surprised that none of them did anything. I figure just cause they were in shock.”

Egan says the student nor parents nor school has reached out to apologize for the punches. “I rather have just fought him than just have him hit me. I’d rather just have a fair fight than have him chicken out and just swing on me. I didn’t see, I didn’t see his arm move.”

Egan and his dad say he will not go back to Parkview.

Gwinnett County School District says it takes the case seriously and handled the situation properly. As for the accused we have tired reaching out for comment. David want to give a shout out to all those who prayed for his recover and thank the doctors and staff at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta- Scottish Rite.

One concerned parent told 11Alive’s Blayne Alexander that she planned to withdraw her son from Parkview High after the incident.

Read More

The man accused of attacking a man in McDonald’s who later died was denied bond at his court appearance Thursday.

Donald Thomas, 50, was arrested Monday and charged with aggravated battery and robbery in the Feb. 28 attack on Frederic Cooper inside the McDonald’s on Indian Trail Lilburn Road, according to Gwinnett County police. On Tuesday, 74-year-old Cooper died in the hospital.

Police said Thursday charges against Thomas could be upgraded, depending on Cooper’s autopsy.

Gwinnett County police say Thomas followed Cooper into the bathroom at the restaurant and tried to take Cooper’s wallet, but the older man resisted. Thomas allegedly attacked Cooper and the two struggled, police said. Cooper was knocked to the floor, sustained a cut to his face and fractured back, among other injuries. Police said Thomas took the wallet and fled the scene.

“Somebody else may not have been injured as severely, but he is 74 years old and he was not physically prepared to be knocked down and attacked the way he was,” Cpl. Jake Smith with Gwinnett police said.

In court Thursday, Thomas asked for a public defender and told the judge he was homeless at the time of his arrest. He will remain in jail and has another court appearance scheduled next week.

Court records show Thomas has been in and out of the Gwinnett jail and court system several times, mainly for drugs and trespassing charges, Channel 2 Action News reported.