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Friday, November 30, 2012

Driver Hits and Kills Homeless Man Along Old Hull Road in Athens, Ga.

The information in this story comes from the ACC Police Department. An arrest doesn't mean a conviction.

    Jonathan Ryan Brown, 21, was walking on the right side of Old Hull Road on Wednesday evening, pushing a loaded shopping car and wearing dark clothing. His back was to on-coming traffic. Grady Dewayne Damons of Jefferson was driving a 2004 GMC Yukon, heading north on Old Hull Road, the police report said. Demons hit Brown, killing him, a little before 7pm. No charges have been filed in the accident. Brown was said to be a homeless man living in woods near the scene of the accident, according to a story in the Athens Banner Herald. The newspaper story said that Brown was walking with his girlfriend at the time of the accident, but she wasn't injured. The area where the fatality occurred has little or no lighting

trina sue tenney

6:01 am on Saturday, December 1, 2012

ryan was a friend in secdonlife.com there he friended anyone showed a kind heart backing ppl and here he needed it in rl i wish m ore ppl cared like he did noone would homeless some could sleep better then too a life is a life light a candle for him show he wasn't a bad man or will be forgotten plz kittymouse from sl ty   more ›

Saturday, November 10, 2012

UGA Employee Killed While Helping Woman With Disabled Car Identified

Authorities late Friday released the name of the 33-year-old man who was struck by a car Thursday night on the SR 10 Loop near Ga. 316.

Oconee County Coroner Ed Carson late Friday identified the victim struck and killed by a car Thursday on the SR 10 Loop near Ga. 316 as 33-year-old Evan Andrew Lilly of Athens. Gwinnett County Police assisted with the notification of his family, Carson said. He worked for UGA as a Application Analyst Associate in Population Health in the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine. Lilly stopped to assist a 44-year-old Athens woman with her 1999 disabled Cadillac DeVille around 11:18 p.m. Thursday, according to spokesman Gordy Wright with the Georgia State Patrol.  A 31-year-old Athens woman driving a 1999 Chevy Cavalier swerved to avoid striking the DeVille broken down in the travel lane and Lilly was hit, Wright said. Authorities said he was …

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