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A man is in the hospital after a
shooting at a popular Atlanta club.
Police say he was shot in the
face twice. Ariana Muniz has all the details.
Atlanta police believe that the
shooting was a drug deal that went bad.
One person is in the hospital this morning
and police do have a suspect in custody.
Take a look at your screen.
This is video from overnight.
Police tell us this happened in
the parking lot at the Blue Flame
Lounge just before midnight and
they were flagged down by a security
guard working at the strip club.
Police believe that there was a
drug deal happening outside and
that's what a person interrupted the
transaction leading to the shooting.
The victim was shot in the face twice in
recovering this morning at Grady Hospital.
In critical condition,
the suspect did attempt to run for police,
but was later arrested.
Now, police are still investigating
this shooting, and at this time,
it's unclear what charges the
suspect will be facing.
We will continue to see on top
of the latest and bring you
the developments on air
as well as online. Back to you,
Ariana. Thank you. It's 649.
Here's what's happening now.
Right now, Bartow County police
are asking for your help finding
a woman suspected of kidnapping.
Police say Rebecca Vincent
kidnapped a young boy on Sunday.
The Bartow County Sheriff's Office.
Posted on their Facebook page that
the child had been found and is
being reunited with his family,
but they are still searching for Vincent.
She was last seen on Wednesday in a
white SUV with Florida plates that was
near the mall of Stonecrest so she
could be in the Stonecrest or Marietta areas.
The newly released special grand Jury
report is giving us a look at the
investigation into potential interference
with Georgia's 2020 presidential election.
Part of this report shows the majority of
the special grand jury believe one or more.
Witnesses may have lied
Underoath during testimony.
The jury recommends that the District
Attorney seeks indictments for that crime.
Where there is compelling evidence,
there is no timeline for when the rest
of that report will be made public.
A daycare employee has been fired
after one parent says their child
was attacked by another child.
Clayton County mother Tara tells us
she picked up her son Carter from the
Thai Lexine Childcare Center near
Jonesboro on Monday and found these
bite Marks and bruises on his face.
Clayton. County police now investigating,
along with the state's department
of early Care and learning.
When we asked the daycare
for surveillance video,
they told us the camera in
the room was not working.
And that was a look at your top
headlines. Melissa, we are off
to a wild start for your Friday.
Yeah, it's been a wet morning.
We've had some heavy rainfall,
some gusty winds,
even causing some trees to come down
and troop county and some bleachers
to be tossed over at Callaway Stadium.
But right now we're seeing a much
different picture outside on radar
than what we did just two hours ago.
The cold front that's responsible
for that heavy rain now moving
through eastern Georgia.
So it's gonna take that heavy
rainfall threat out of here
for the rest of the morning.
And over the next couple of
hours the rain threat altogether
will be winding down as well.
But I'm still tracking that pretty
much widespread rain across much of the
north side of the metro this morning.
The rains a lot lighter though,
but the damage is already done in
terms of wet roadways and ponding
and standing water out there.
We've got rain across the metro
that's pretty light,
but a few pockets where it's
more moderate one over.
Southern Cherokee County in northeastern
Cobb County, not far from Hwy.
92,
that's moving E into Roswell and up
towards Big Creek area and then W along I-20,
another area where that rains
a little bit more steady,
that's right over Douglasville.
That's going to move East and
towards Six Flags here shortly.
This is the front right now
moving through Eatonton with that
pocket of moderate rain,
currently 59 in Atlanta,
52 in Marietta and 40s up in Dalton.
You see that colder air on the
western side of town versus the
eastern side of the metro where
temperatures are still in the 60s.
We're expecting the rain for the
next couple of hours to continue,
but as we work our way between
about 8:00 and 10:00 o'clock,
that rain will be winding down as it does.
So you're going to notice the
temperatures really dropping off the
next couple of hours this morning
from the 50s and 60s down into
the 40s for the rest of the day.
So although we're in the upper
fifties right now in Atlanta,
grab a bigger jacket because by
10:00 o'clock we're already going
to be down to the upper 40s.
We'll stay in the 40s the rest of
the day as colder air comes rushing
in with some gusty northwest winds.
We can have some gusts today
that are about 25 to 30 mph,
so it'll be a gusty day as we dry things out.
So temperatures this afternoon,
40s to low 50s,
much colder in the North Georgia Mountains
where we'll be in the low 40s at best.
Overnight tonight with mainly clear Sky,
we're going to drop down to the upper 20s,
then for tomorrow afternoon back to the 50s.
A lot of sunshine tomorrow and a
dry day on Sunday as well with a
warming trend starting to move in
by the second-half of the weekend.
Here's your 7 day forecast as
we get into next week,
big time Warm Up 70s Tuesday,
Wednesday. Closer to 80 by
Thursday, you were happening.
Today. A group of protesters
planned to come together to call
for justice in several Gwinnett
County missing persons cases, two of
which recently ended in tragedy.
The Hispanics United Alliance plans
to rally for Rodrigo Florian Mayan,
a teenager who police say died of
an overdose, and Susanna Morales,
a 16 year old girl whose body
was found naked and abandoned.
A former Doraville police
officer is facing charges,
accused of trying to conceal her death.
The flyer for the protest also mentioned.
Elena Garcia,
a woman who was last seen back in October,
according to a verified fundraiser
her sister posted.
We checked in with Gwinnett County
police and they say finding answers
and cases involving adults is more
difficult than some people think.
Being a missing person
is not against the law.
So if we don't have evidence of
a criminal act and abduction or
some other criminal, you know,
action that we can articulate,
a lot of times we cannot do
things that we would normally
do to investigate. Something
we've reached out to the
organizers of today's protest,
but so far haven't heard back.
It is set to start at 11 AM new
this morning. As county sheriffs
statewide continue to look for ways
to retain and recruit deputies,
they could soon get some help.
One state senator just introduced what
he's calling the back the Blue Act.
It would provide extra funds
to state sheriff's departments
through a voluntary $3 donation.
When people pay their
auto insurance premiums,
insurance agencies would
collect the donations.
And send it to the Department of Insurance.
It would then be split among
Georgia's 159 counties.
County leaders could use that money
toward advancing deputy pay and benefits.
Georgia's lawmakers
on Capitol Hill are working to
cement the legacy of civil rights
activists and Baptist Minister Ralph
David Abernathy, senior in U.S.
history, US Senator John Ossoff and
Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock
introducing a bill to recognize
Atlantis W Hunter Street Baptist
Church as a National Historic site.
Abernathy became pastor and
leader of the church in 1961,
guiding the Congregation for nearly 30
years through the civil Rights movement.
Congresswoman Nikiema Williams says the
church played an active role in the movement.
Ralph David,
Abernathy senior used his pulpit
to lead the call for economic
justice and civil rights.
If passed,
the bipartisan legislation would
give the church protections and
preserve his legacy as well as
abernathy's contributions happening
today. A new exhibit at
Macon's Tubman Museum.
Will be unveiled.
It'll be a popular one because
it is all about Tyler Perry.
It's going to highlight his life and career,
all part of Black History Month celebration.
Tonight they're going to have a
private red carpet grand opening,
then it opens to the public tomorrow.
So it'll have memorabilia from his shows,
from his film stage and music,
also telling a lot of his life story.
Melissa
and we're tracking still
rain across parts of the metro this morning,
but as we look our way through
the next couple of hours,
that rain is going to be exiting.
Especially between about 8:00 and
10:00 o'clock for the metro by noontime
and throughout the afternoon there
will be some breaks in the clouds.
But it is good to turn chilly
and gusty outside.
We'll have some wind gusts today that
could be on the order of 25 to 30 mph.
It'll be cold tonight,
but dry for the weekend.
All right, well,
that's one way to describe it.
And because of that you guys are going
to stick around and keep us posted.
Yeah, we're gonna keep on
streaming on the 11 live app on 11
live.com so they can help you get
through the rest of the morning.
Alright, be careful out there everybody,
and
enjoy the weekend. We'll see you
back here on Monday morning.