Neighbors in one Atlanta community said they're on alert after a recent carjacking attempt ended with the female victim shooting her attacker. 

The incident happened at a Ponce Highlands neighborhood near Ponce de Leon and North Highland avenues.

According to Atlanta Police, the woman had just gotten into her car around 10:30 p.m. when her attacker Sebastian Fontana walked up to her window. At that point, the victim locked the doors to the vehicle. The carjacker displayed a firearm in order to ...

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 Clayton County police have arrested 23-year-old Aamirr Philpot and charged him with rape, false imprisonment and aggravated sodomy for robbing and raping women he met on social media websites at gunpoint.

Sgt. Scott Hughes of the Clayton County Police Department said "Once he (Philpot) made contact with the females and gained their trust, he would arrange to meet them at a location and when they arrived, he would rape and rob them," .

Authorities did not say how many victims there were, but ...
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The first official recorded murder in Atlanta for 2013 happened within the first 9 hours of 2013 as reported by Atlanta Police!!
 

An 18-year-old high school student died after he was shot in the stomach inside a home on Epworth Street in Southwest Atlanta early Tuesday morning, Atlanta Police say. 


 

"We had two males that were involved in a dispute. We don't know what the subject of the dispute was, but it resulted in one of the males shot," Atlanta Police Sgt. Eddie Smith told Fox 5 reporters...
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Sad to say I can do a commentary on stories like this, particularly in the Atlanta Metro Area every single day and sometimes it seems as though folks, even many that I personally know, still go about their daily undertakings in some kind of hazy cloud of what they believe life should be versus what it obviously is. These stories aren’t localized to just “bad” neighborhoods. Crimes like these occur where opportunity allows it to happen. There is one increasing variable to all these stori...
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Are you prepared to safely defend yourself or your loved ones when your door is kicked in at 2:00 in the morning? Do you have the means to protect yourself? If you own a handgun, have you taken a gun safety class that shows you how to properly use that gun to safely defend your family while reducing their risk of injury? Have you put an emergency action plan in place? Watch this news video by Fox 5 Atlanta to see just how real the possibility of a home invasion is for occurring in your neighb...
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