Sad news story with a better ending.
Very tragic for the woman. Glad some men had the guts to step in and try and help her.
I am watching the news lines here in Atlanta to see if the executioner will be charged.
Woman, alleged carjacker killed near Acworth
Truck hits vehicle; witness shoots fleeing gunman
By MIKE MORRIS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 09/12/05
An apparent carjacking victim was killed Monday morning in north Cobb County when her sport utility vehicle was broadsided by a cement truck. The suspected carjacker was then shot to death by a bystander when he tried to run from the wreck scene.
About 9:30 a.m., a motorist northbound on Cobb Parkway noticed a white Toyota SUV pulled over to the side of the southbound lanes just south of the Lake Allatoona bridge, said Cobb police Cpl. Dana Pierce.
A man was beating a woman outside the SUV, and the northbound motorist stopped his vehicle and started across the four-lane roadway to help the woman, said Pierce.
The suspect then pushed the woman back into the SUV and took off, with the doors to the SUV still open. A short distance later, the suspect tried to turn left onto Lake Acworth Drive, and a northbound cement mixer struck the SUV in the passenger's side, killing the woman, Pierce said.
Pierce said the suspect exited the SUV and was running toward a nearby gas station when he was shot and killed in the middle of the roadway by a man who had gotten out of a southbound Dodge pickup truck.
Acworth police spokesman Wayne Dennard said his department is investigating the possibility that the man killed Monday morning was the suspect in a Tuesday rape allegedly committed by a Hurricane Katrina evacuee.
"He does meet the general description," Dennard said.
Dennard said the victim of Tuesday's rape told investigators that her attacker "said he was from Louisiana and his family was dead and he had nothing to lose."
Very tragic for the woman. Glad some men had the guts to step in and try and help her.
I am watching the news lines here in Atlanta to see if the executioner will be charged.
Woman, alleged carjacker killed near Acworth
Truck hits vehicle; witness shoots fleeing gunman
By MIKE MORRIS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 09/12/05
An apparent carjacking victim was killed Monday morning in north Cobb County when her sport utility vehicle was broadsided by a cement truck. The suspected carjacker was then shot to death by a bystander when he tried to run from the wreck scene.
About 9:30 a.m., a motorist northbound on Cobb Parkway noticed a white Toyota SUV pulled over to the side of the southbound lanes just south of the Lake Allatoona bridge, said Cobb police Cpl. Dana Pierce.
A man was beating a woman outside the SUV, and the northbound motorist stopped his vehicle and started across the four-lane roadway to help the woman, said Pierce.
The suspect then pushed the woman back into the SUV and took off, with the doors to the SUV still open. A short distance later, the suspect tried to turn left onto Lake Acworth Drive, and a northbound cement mixer struck the SUV in the passenger's side, killing the woman, Pierce said.
Pierce said the suspect exited the SUV and was running toward a nearby gas station when he was shot and killed in the middle of the roadway by a man who had gotten out of a southbound Dodge pickup truck.
Acworth police spokesman Wayne Dennard said his department is investigating the possibility that the man killed Monday morning was the suspect in a Tuesday rape allegedly committed by a Hurricane Katrina evacuee.
"He does meet the general description," Dennard said.
Dennard said the victim of Tuesday's rape told investigators that her attacker "said he was from Louisiana and his family was dead and he had nothing to lose."
