An Athens teenager is arrested on assault charges: Athens-Clarke County Police say 19 year-old Dillon Brown was part of a street gang that assaulted and pistol-whipped another teenager in a home in north Athens, an attack that was reported this past November.
There is trouble in Toccoa, where Stephens County’s 911 headquarters have apparently been hit by a hacker. The Emergency Management Director in Toccoa says the hacks have prevented some emergency calls from connecting to the dispatch center in Stephens County.
The Hall County Sheriff’s Office says there is new trouble for a registered sex offender in Gainesville: Ronald Segars was reportedly caught with what investigators say were sexually explicit images and videos involving children, material that found on electronic storage devices seized at his home in Gainesville.
There has been another deadly shooting in Atlanta: a man was shot and killed outside a MARTA station. Atlanta Police say a suspect is in custody.