Monday, January 7, 2013
Graham Sisk was gunned down in his car at the corner of Ponce de Leon and Moreland in October. Police have said they believe "all individuals" involved in the shooting had been taking part in "illegal activity" at the time.
UPDATED: 10:43 a.m. Atlanta police have arrested a 51-year-old man in the brazen daylight killing of a man in his vehicle last fall, according to a news release. Denorris Turner was arrested Monday and charged with Felony Murder, Aggravated Assault and Criminal Attempt in the killing of Graham Sisk, 23. The Atlanta Police Department said Turner was transported to the DeKalb County Jail, where he was being held Monday night. Turner is the second man to be arrested in the crime. In November, police arrested Shaheed K. Huff, 30, in Lithonia and charged him with felony murder and aggravated assault with a weapon. Sisk was killed Oct. 5 in the afternoon shooting at the busy intersection, shocking many in the Virginia-Highland/Druid Hills …
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The victim was gunned down in October at the corner of Ponce de Leon and Moreland.
Atlanta police have announced the arrest of a man in the brazen daylight killing of a man in a vehicle at the intersection of Ponce de Leon and Moreland in October. Shaheed K. Huff, 30, was arrested without incident Tuesday in Lithonia and transported to the DeKalb County jail. Huff has been charged with Felony Murder and Aggravated Assault with a Weapon in the killing of Graham Sisk, 23. Sisk was killed Oct. 5 in the afternoon shooting at the busy intersection, shocking many in the Virginia-Highland/Druid Hills community. Atlanta police said soon after that they believed that Sisk was targeted by his attackers and that the crime was not random. According to APD, Sisk was traveling northbound on Moreland Ave approaching Ponce De Leon …
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Few fresh details of Friday afternoon's shooting at Ponce and Moreland have been released.
The Atlanta Police Department has identified the victim of the Friday afternoon shooting at Ponce de Leon and Moreland Avenue as Graham Sisk, 23. Atlanta police say they belive that Sisk was targetted by his attackers and that the crime was not random. The brazen, daylight shooting at a busy intersection has shocked many in the Virginia-Highland/Druid Hills community. According to an APD news release, Sisk was traveling northbound on Moreland Ave approaching Ponce De Leon when "suspects approached him and fired multiple times. ...It appears that there may be two suspect vehicles and multiple suspects involved." So far, police have not released descriptions of the suspects or their vehicles, though a gas station attendant at the Exxon …
Friday, October 5, 2012
Atlanta police are looking for two or more vehicles that were apparently involved in the fatal incident.
A man was shot to death at the intersection of Ponce de Leon and Moreland Avenue on Friday afternoon, and police are searching for suspects. The Atlanta Police Department says that a man was apparently shot multiple times while sitting in his car at the intersection around 4 p.m. According to an APD news release, the victim was traveling northbound on Moreland Ave approaching Ponce De Leon when "suspects approached him and fired multiple times. The victim's vehicle then continued through the intersection coming to rest on the north east corner. It appears that there may be two suspect vehicles and multiple suspects involved." An employee of the Exxon station at the busy intersection told Patch that a customer came in and asked her to …
Anna Varela
9:48 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Readers - Police have consistently reported that the accident took place on Moreland, and that the victim's car crossed Ponce headed north toward Briarcliff. The police report does appear to have an incorrect reference to where the prior "altercation" took place, and we've removed that to avoid further confusion. The exact location of the event that came before the accident doesn't change the … more ›