Saturday, April 6, 2013
A march commemorating the 45th Anniversary of the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Moore's Ford Lynching will take place on the bridge April 6th.
Civil rights activists will be in Monroe todayto commemorate the 45th Anniversary of the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as well to participate in the Annual March on the Moore’s Ford Bridge. The event will begin at noon at the First African Baptist Church, 130 Tyler Street (Corner of Main Street, Hwy. 11), Monroe, GA 30655. According to the event calendar, the activists are demanding the arrest and prosecution of those responsible for the lynching massacre of the Malcoms and the Dorseys on July 25, 1946. The special guest speaker is Benjamin Todd Jealous, National President/CEO NAACP. The 9th Annual Re-enactment of the Moore’s Ford Bridge Lynching is scheduled for Saturday, July 27, 2013, also beginning at noon at the First …
Thursday, February 14, 2013
The young man was 16 when 76-year-old Edward Davidson was shot and killed.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Anthony Jermaine Fuller's case has been moved to Clarke County Superior Court.
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Wednesday, February 13
A young man will be tried as an adult--he was 16 years old at the time he's accused of entering an elderly man's home on Jefferson River Road and participating in the 76-year-old's shooting death. According to a story in the Athens Banner-Herald, a judge made the decision at a hearing this week. Anthony Jermaine Fuller, now 17, is charged with the Nov. 26, 2012, murder of Edward Davidson. He was being held at the Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center. Also charged with murder and burglary are 22-year-old Justin Oneal Baughns and 30-year-old Dwayne Tavares Myers. Subscribe to the Athens Patch Newsletter, like us on Facebook, follow Athens Patch on Twitter.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The Franklin County woman with ties to Athens had been strangled and bludgeoned, authorities said.
A body discovered Sunday in a Franklin County well is that of Bonny Anne Cooner, who was reported missing on Jan. 28. The 33-year-old woman had been both strangled and bludgeoned before her body was dumped into a well within four miles of the Canon home she shared with her 12-year-old son and boyfriend. The boyfriend, Brent James Shubert, 43, has been charged with aggravated assault, murder and concealing a death, according to a story in the Athens Banner Herald. He was arrested Sunday in Anderson, S.C., but is now in jail in Franklin County. The story says there was a history of domestic violence between Cooner and Shubert. GBI officials said the cause of Cooner's death was strangulation and blunt force trauma to the head, according to …
Monday, December 17, 2012
The information in this story comes from the ACC Police Department. An arrest doesn't mean a conviction.
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Athens-Clarke County Police and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) have charged three Athens-Clarke County residents in connection with the November 26, 2012, death of Edward Davidson at 400 Jefferson River Rd. Charged with the murder and burglary are Anthony Fuller, 16, Altarstone Dr, Justin Baughns, 22, Lavender Rd, and Dwayne Myers, 30, Lavender Rd. All are currently in the custody of the Clarke County Sheriff’s Office. The positive outcome to this investigation was due to courageous citizens who provided information, as well as the diligence and hard work of members of the ACCPD and the GBI. You may also want to read: 76-year-old Man Murdered During Home Invasion in Athens, Ga.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The incident on Jefferson River Road is the fifth murder this year in Athens.
Awakened before midnight Monday by the sounds of someone kicking in the front door, Edward Davidson, 76, went to investigate and was shot and killed, according to an Athens Clarke County Police report. His wife, Charlotte Davidson, wasn't injured, the report says. Mrs. Davidson didn't see her husband get shot, said a story in the Athens Banner Herald, but she did tell the responding officers that she saw two men running away. She had called police a few minutes earlier to report a burglary in process. “There was a break-in to the residence, and right now the only thing I can tell you is there were at least two people involved, but there’s no basic description of them yet,” Athens-Clarke police Capt. Clarence Holeman told the Banner Herald …
Friday, October 26, 2012
Police ask anyone with information on Charles 'Rodney' Wilson to call police at 706-546-5900 or 911
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Friday, October 26, 2012
From Athens-Clarke County Police: Charles "Rodney" Wilson is wanted for a murder that occurred on October 25, 2012 on Old Monroe Rd in Athens-Clarke County, GA. Wilson may be driving a 2002 tan Chevrolet Impala bearing GA tag BSA 7670. Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Wilson should contact the Athens-Clarke County Police at 706-546-5900 or 911.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
These gunshots were heard around the world.
On this day in 1914, in Sarajevo, a Serbian nationalist shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austria-Hungary Empire, and his expectant wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. The assassin was 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, one six Bosnian Serbs trained by Serbian military officers. One month after the two were murdered, World War I began. Scholars continue to debate why exactly the war started. There had been diplomatic skirmishes since the mid-1800s in Europe. One immediate cause was territorial disputes in the Balkans. Austria-Hungary struggled again Serbia and Russia for territory and influence in the region. Through treaties, alliances and family ties, they pulled the rest of the Great Powers into the …
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Notorious murder in downtown Athens remains unsolved.
It happened early one April morning, 20 years ago--a day that began breezy and cool, much like today. A University of Georgia student, on the brink of graduation and a promising advertising career, was robbed, sexually assaulted and strangled in her downtown Athens house, two blocks from campus. In 1992, downtown Athens was transitioning from a sleepy retail center to a bustling residential and entertainment district. The crack trade still thrived at night in some Athens side streets, but it was possible by day to window shop along downtown’s tree-lined main streets and have no idea of any illicit activity on the district’s fringes. In 1985, a couple had restored the old Presbyterian manse at Clayton and Hull streets, as well as a small …
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Forensic experts talk about what talks to investigators.
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Saturday, March 24, 2012
Before Charles S. Parker was shot and his body dumped in a remote well, his last public appearance was his annual recitation of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech at a January 15th church service in Lithonia. On the surface, this 25-year-old Lithonia native had lived the dream: he was educated and handsome, he had a good job with a bank, he was married to a beautiful woman and taught Sunday school at Anointed Word Evangelistic Tabernacle, his childhood church. Parker’s dream ended abruptly when he was killed on January 15th by one or more people who remain at large. His body was found in a well near an abandoned house in Oglethorpe County 36 days later. Experts interviewed during a national forensic sciences conference in …
Rebecca McCarthy
7:40 am on Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Thanks for writing, Melody. How dreadful for Bonny Anne's family and friends to lose her to such a violent and unnecessary act. The whole business is so very sad. more ›