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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Suspect Sought in Lakewood Heights Sexual Assaults

APD: Man, posing as a police officer fondled, groped two teens Sept. 15.

Atlanta police on Wedesnday released the sketch of a man they say posed as an undercover police officer and fondled two teenaged girls last month in Lakewood Heights. The victims, 16 and 17, told police they were leaving the Lakewood Amphitheatre after a Sept. 15 concert and needed to use the restroom. Finding the restroom lines too long, they told investigators they left the amphitheatre grounds and crossed Pryor Road SW and headed for some woods behind a gas station in the 1900 block. They told officers others were doing the same and so they thought it was OK. As they began to relieve themselves, they said a man came up from behind them asking them what they were doing. He identified himself as an undercover police officer and walked …

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Five Wounded In Lakewood Heights Shootout

Four vicitms sent to Grady.

Five people were shot — four of them hospitalized — late Tuesday night following a shootout in Atlanta's Lakewood Heights neighborhood. Atlanta police are still looking into what sparked the multiple shootings on Gould Street and have no suspects. When police arrived at the crime scene, just before 10 p.m. on what is mainly a residential street of modest, single family homes, they found four men with gunshot wounds — two in the chest, one in the leg and the fourth in the arm and possibly the head. All four were sent to Grady Memorial Hospital for treatment, police said. One of the victims with the gunshot wound was listed in critical condition and the other three were listed in stable condition. Police said there may have been a fifth …

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