Police investigate shooting death of local security guard

WSB-TV ^ | May 24, 2015

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EAST POINT, Ga. — East Point police are investigating a suspicious death involving a security guard.

They said Antonio Spear, 32, of Atlanta was found several hundred feet from where investigators believe he was shot to death.

East Point firefighters worked to remove a white Ford Expedition after it crashed into a fence just before 7 a.m. Sunday.

“I heard a big bang. It was like a bomb so I was like, ‘What is that?” Ryeesha Zellner said.

Zellner told Channel 2’s Jessica Jaglois she was sitting in her car outside her job when she saw the SUV crash and catch fire.

“So I ran in my job and got everyone out the break room because we didn't know what was going to happen, our job could have caught on fire,” she said.

A colleague used a fire extinguisher on the vehicle, but the man behind the wheel was already dead.

East Point police said Spear was a security guard for Tri-Cities Plaza.

“What we think is when the victim was shot he was still inside of his car and involuntarily stepped on the gas the car drove through the parking lot and into that, where it came to rest,” East Point Police Capt. Cliff Chandler said.

Police said a gun was found in the victim's car, but they are unsure if it is the weapon that was used to kill him.

Because the crime scene encompasses several hundred feet, East Point police used a new tool for the department: a drone.

“With the drone we're able to get above it like a helicopter to get greater perspective as to where perpetrators might have been located, where the victim came to rest in relation to where the initial crime scene might have taken place,” Chandler said.

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A sheriff was shot in Charleston, SC last week ... A thug whose family said he was “only going out to rob the convenience store” walked up to a sheriff at a gas station and shot him in the head, just because the cop happened to be there. And maybe the thug wanted to express his solidarity with thug riots everywhere, poor baby.

The cop survived, but was in the ICU for a week and has just been moved out; he’s going to live, but his life won’t be the same.

Charleston was shut down on Wednesday because the thug was holed up in some section 8 housing downtown, built because you have to make sure that thugs have equal access to tourism opportunities, I guess. The police did finally get him.

But it was never widely reported. I think the new press strategy in protecting the thugs of this world will simply be to stop reporting on their doings at all.