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Man Acquitted In Morehouse Murder; Mom Gets The Max For Starving Kids; Flasher Cop Did It Before
One of the men accused of torturing and murdering a fellow Morehouse student will soon go home; a Lovejoy mother gets the book thrown at her for nearly killing her twins; the ex-cop accused of flashing women during a traffic stop has a history of that kind of thing. Details are on today's KISS News Now!
- The ITT student accused in the stray-bullet killing of a Spelman student says he didn't murder Jasmine Lynn--but he knows who did. Devonni Benton's lawyer says his client was sitting on the information to protect his friend, but isn't anymore. They've turned over the buddy's name to prosecutors, but the district attorney says he's confident the grand jury indicted the right guy.
- He told a jury he was forced to be there, and they believed him. A Clayton County jury acquitted 24-year-old Breylon Garland in the 2006 torture-murder of fellow Morehouse student Carlnell Walker, who was beaten, stabbed and stomped for hours, doused in gasoline and stuffed into his car trunk to die. Garland's attorney says his client had no idea the others were planning to rob Walker, that Garland thought he was just giving a friend a ride to someone's house the day it happened. Three others are charged in the murder, and one was convicted in August and faces two life sentences. Garland isn't going home yet, however; he's now in the Fulton County jail on an unrelated simple assault charge.
- A Clayton County woman is sentenced to the maximum sentence--70 years in prison--for nearly starving her twin sons to death. The boys weighed just nine pounds when they were 13 months old, could barely move, and their brains had shrunk. Tessa Zelek's lawyer promises to appeal the harsh sentence; the boys' father, James McCart, got 15 years behind bars in a plea bargain. Testimony showed the couple would go on prescription drug binges and turn down the baby monitors, ignoring their sons. McCart's family is now taking care of the boys. Zelek's mother goes on trial next month for not reporting the abuse to authorities.
- The Loganville man accused of touching off last week's deadly crash on Highway 78 has been charged with three counts of misdemeanor vehicular homicide. James Miles is expected to surrender today in connection with the accident which killed three Georgia Power commuters and injured six when his car clipped their van's rear bumper. Miles was unhurt.
- A Fulton County mother is off to prison for beating up her daughter's teacher in 2008. Angry that the teen was getting a failing grade, Georgia Thornton and her daughter Saquita went to Southside High School and attacked Felecia Williams--kicking, punching and scratching her, and pulling her hair out of her scalp. Thornton gets a year behind bars; her now 19-year-old daughter has yet to stand trial.
- It seems the now-resigned Carver Bible College cop accused of exposing himself to three young women during a traffic stop last week has done this kind of thing before. 28-year-old Steven Turner resigned from Lithonia's Police Department last year after an internal affairs report that he'd flashed someone during a stop and lied about it. Last week Turner offered to show the women his "Prince Albert" and later sexted a picture of his privates to one of them.
- A man whose car was totaled and vandalized when it fell into a Gwinnett County sinkhole after last month's record floods now faces charges. Ira Strong claimed he had driven down West Liddell Road because the orange barrels blocking it off had been moved. But a witness told cops he saw Strong maneuver around the barrels before plunging into the sinkhole--then come back to move them himself before calling cops.
- A federal judge in Los Angeles refuses to tangle up Chris Rock's "Good Hair." A documentary maker had sued to stop its release, claiming Rock stole her idea for the film after seeing hers back in 2007. The judge says she watched both, but didn't see any big similarities.
- Atlanta's about to add 50 new cops to the force, thanks to an infusion of federal dollars. The City Council has approved $11 million from the Justice Department's COPS program. It will pay for the community policing positions for the next three years, and the city will have to find the funds after that.
- Ex-wide receiver Michael Irvin's apparently got a real tight end. Irvin's professional partner on Dancing With The Stars suggested that he keep a nickel pressed between his butt cheeks so he could improve his posture during practice. It worked, even though Irvin still scored the lowest this week. Irvin gave the nickel to judge Bruno as a souvenir. Keep the change, Michael.
- The KISS 104.1 weather forecast: clear blue skies and highs around 69.
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