RSSFOX NEWS Reporting Shooting at the CNN News Center in Atlanta, GA
According to Fox News reports, two people have been shot. One of them is the suspect.
UPDATE I: Shooting At CNN Center In Downtown Atlanta
There has been a shooting at the CNN Center in Downtown Atlanta.
CNN reports that a woman was shot in the face.
Witnesses say they saw a man dragging a woman by the hair just before the shooting.
The gunman is in custody, according to CNN (WSB-TV)
A man shot a woman today at CNN Center complex. A witness who is a CNN employee saw a male shoot a black female twice at the Omni hotel, which is part of CNN Center (CNN)
UPDATE II: According to Fox News, 1 dead in the shooting. No word as to which individual died. According to the reports they died at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.
UPDATE III: Gunfire at CNN Atlanta complex kills one
A domestic dispute erupted in gunfire at CNN’s headquarters complex Tuesday, killing a woman and critically wounding the man who first pulled a gun, authorities said. The man and woman were arguing near the main entrance of the complex when the man shot her, police officer James Polite said. The armed man was then shot by a CNN security guard. (Yahoo News)
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This is very sad. We must learn that life is precious.
Another pregnant woman… murdered
I read this article this morning. What is a convicted murderer and sexual predator from Florida (who was arrested for not registerring) doing on the streets of Atlanta?
The thought that goes through my mind is that he must have graduated from molesting teenagers to stalking 22-year old women. She was an adult, yes; but, still, seventeen years younger than him.
What does this story say about our inability to keep track of these people or keep them locked up?
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Alleged CNN shooter gave no warning signs
Ex-boyfriend has long criminal record
By SAEED AHMED, S.A. REID
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 04/05/07
After spending the weekend with Clara Riddles’ family enjoying the Final Four basketball games, Arthur Mann borrowed her father’s car Tuesday, dropped her mother off at work, then walked to Riddles’ job at the CNN Center where in front of a shocked lunchtime crowd, police said, he put two bullets into her.
A day after the shooting that claimed the life of the 22-year-old woman, Riddles’ family tried to explain what would compel a soft-spoken and seemingly mild-mannered man to so calculatedly kill his former girlfriend because she wanted out of their relationship.
“That’s the alarming thing, there were no real warning signs,” Riddles’ cousin, Thomas Blake, told a reporter Wednesday night. “He never put his hands on her. Because if he did, trust me, between her uncles and the rest of the males in her family, you’d be doing a different story.”
Since Riddles’ death, her family has learned one new thing after another about the man she dated for about a year, each one more shocking than the last.
They didn’t have an idea Mann, 39, was 17 years older than her.
They were aghast that he had been convicted of murder.
That he served time in Florida for having sex with a minor when he was 31 and had spent 11 years of his life in prison for various offenses.
“If I had known any one of these things, I’d have told her, ‘I’m not having that. You need to end that relationship,’” Blake said.
As it turns out, that’s precisely what Riddles was in the process of doing.
She met Mann while both of them worked at a Burger King. But while Mann couldn’t keep his job, Riddles quit hers because, her family said, she was at a point in her life when she wanted a career and not just a paycheck.
She had begun working at the Omni Hotel, stocking honor bars in hotel rooms. But she envisioned herself several rungs up that corporate ladder in a few years.
The two weren’t compatible anymore, the family said. “He wasn’t living up to his part as a man to her,” Blake said.
The couple had several arguments. Mann called Riddles at her job and on her cellphone repeatedly, her family said.
Relatives, meanwhile, didn’t think of the spat as anything more than a breakup. Riddles temporarily moved away from home, just to get away from facing Mann when he came by.
And he came by often. He had no family to speak of in Georgia, and Riddles’ relatives had embraced him like an extended family, Blake said.
Mann is originally from Florida where, records show, he has an extensive criminal history.
His prison stints, according to Florida’s Department of Corrections, began in April 1986 - at age 19 - when he served a year for stealing a vehicle.
A year after his release, he stole another car, and served a year and a half for that crime.
Released in July 1991, Mann was in trouble with the law four months later. In November of that year, he killed someone while committing a robbery.
Florida authorities sentenced him to 10 years in prison. He served a little less than four years, although it was not immediately clear why he was released early.
Nine months later, Mann ran afoul of authorities again when he had sex with a minor in February 1998. Records show his victim was either 16 or 17.
He served five years in prison, and moved from Miami to Fairburn sometime after his release in March 2004.
Two years later, he was convicted of failing to register as a sex offender in Georgia.
Around that time, he met Riddles.
He told her family he had served prison time, but didn’t elaborate. During a visit to Miami several months ago, Riddles learned a little about her boyfriend’s past - and began distancing herself from the relationship.
Over the weekend, Mann stayed at the Riddles home, watching the games on TV, sharing drinks with her cousins.
“It’s frightening that the whole time, all this was building up within him,” Blake said.
The next morning, Mann borrowed Riddles’ father’s car, saying he had to run to a store. He dropped her mother off at her job. And then drove downtown to the CNN Center to meet Riddles.
Police said the two exchanged words. Then, according to witnesses, Mann allegedly dragged Riddles by the hair down an escalator.
Then, in the presence of dozens of people, police said, Mann fatally shot Riddles in the upper body and face.
A security guard shot Mann, who remained at Grady Memorial Hospital on Wednesday night. A police spokesman had initially identified the suspect as Amman, but the department corrected itself later.
Funeral arrangements for Riddles have not yet been made. She leaves behind her parents, a sister, a brother and a host of relatives wondering whether there was anything they could have done to prevent her untimely passing.