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A criminal immigrant accused of carrying out a shooting spree in Georgia that killed three people was found dead inside his jail cell. Olaolukitan Adon-Abel, 26, was discovered unresponsive late on Tuesday night in his cell at a DeKalb County jail, according to the sheriff's office. Authorities said life-saving measures were attempted, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. The cause of death has not yet been determined and an internal review is underway but officials say they do not currently suspect foul play. The sudden death brings a dramatic turn in a case that had already stunned Georgia...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — An Atlanta man has been arrested in connection with three Monday shooting incidents — two of them deadly — in DeKalb County. Olaolukitan Adon Abel, 26, was taken into custody Monday. The first shooting happened outside a Checkers on Wesley Chapel Road shortly before 1 a.m. A woman, who has not been identified, was found with multiple gunshot wounds. She later died after being taken to the hospital, according to the DeKalb County Police Department. Arrest warrants state the woman, who was found with 14 gunshot wounds, got out of the car she was...

🚨#BREAKING: A HORRIFYING story is currently unfolding in DeKalb County GA where a Black man has allegedly just sh*t a woman in the face 6-7 times and st*bbed her multiple times while she was just walking her dog in her neighborhood. He was also allegedly in the process of se*ually assaulting her, when interrupted by neighbors who called the police. The man is believed to be targeting women and has allegedly sh*t AT LEAST two women today.

Three weeks after the Georgia Senate failed to pass a bill requiring hand-marked ballots for the November elections, a revamped House bill with the same requirement was approved. In its original form, House Bill 960 would have added a 12th Superior Court judge to the Gwinnett Judicial Circuit. The amended bill presented by Sen. Greg Dolezal, R-Cumming, on Friday contained some of the same language as Senate Bill 568, which failed on crossover day. House Bill 960 still requires hand-marked ballots for the November 2026 general election and requires a manual recount of some elections. The new version reduces the...

A violent suspect who was arrested trying to shut down a pro-Daniel Penny rally in Manhattan was out on bond for a leftist domestic terrorism case in Atlanta. Teresa Yue Shen, 31, of Brooklyn, was one of several far-left militants charged with domestic terrorism in January in Atlanta, following a deadly shooting incident at an Antifa-linked autonomous zone occupation at the heart of the “Stop Cop City” movement. Shen’s $20,000 bond was fronted by far-left activist Daniel Hanley. The Atlanta Solidarity Fund, a project of 501(c)(3) nonprofit Network For Strong Communities, has been raising cash for Antifa and domestic terrorism...

Four Democrat-led counties in Georgia extended the in-person drop-off hours for absentee ballots this weekend. But some local Republican leaders expressed frustration with the abrupt change, telling The Federalist they were never directly informed about the last-minute changes and as a result these drop-off locations were unsupervised by GOP observers for hours. Fulton County announced Friday that “four election offices around Fulton County will be opened throughout the weekend to accommodate voters seeking to hand-return their absentee ballots.” Fulton County Republican Party Chairwoman Stephanie Endres told The Federalist the guidance came from Fulton County Director of Registration and Elections Nadine...

This story started all the way back in February. A homeowner in DeKalb County, Georgia had been leasing his house to a tenant who had just moved out. A few days later he stopped by to check the condition of the property but when he pulled into the driveway he found someone else had already moved in.Tim Arko said just days after his tenants moved out of his East Lake rental home, he showed up to find someone had broken in.He said as soon as he pulled into the driveway, someone pointed a gun at him.“I just jumped the fence...

A total of 16 cars were broken into early Thursday morning by five teenagers, according to the Dunwoody Police Department. Dunwoody police officers arrived at an active car break-in in the parking lot of Peachford Hospital. Once police arrived, the teens ran away. The teens were found climbing the fence behind a business and eventually arrested, according to police. Officers found two stolen firearms, along with multiple other items, among the teens. The following teens are facing multiple felony charges: Kenneth Laster – 17-year-old male Teneldric Boykins – 17 year old male Quavion Black – 17-year-old male Marcus Carter –...

As they say, life moves fast.On Monday, the New York Times published a story about a “small group of election deniers” who pushed a “conspiracy theory” that “a small American election software company, Konnech, had secret ties to the Chinese Communist Party and had given the Chinese government backdoor access to personal data about two million poll workers in the United States.”On Tuesday, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón announced that Eugene Yu, Konnech’s CEO, had been arrested in Michigan “as part of an investigation into the possible theft of personal identifying information of [LA County election] workers” and that...

This is the wild tale of Michele Long Spears, initially the apparent loser who wound up winning an election by overcoming a “glitch” in the voting machines. IMO this is a highly under-reported story. After the contentious election in 2018 in a race that Stacey Abrams claimed was mismanaged, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger ordered the purchase of new voting machines from Dominion, and they came with a caveat. Cybersecurity experts and election integrity activists warn that the new machines suffer from many of the same problems as the old ones, including being vulnerable to hacking, and advocate for...

Earlier this month we found out that voting machines can do tricky things. The results of a Democratic primary in a Georgia county were challenged after a hand count found the machines to be off by thousands. Marshall Orson, a Democratic candidate for DeKalb County Commission, requested that the local elections board not certify the results as scheduled because there were “numerous issues” in the race (Kind of sounds like what Trump asked for after the 2020 election). The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Orson asked for a formal recount of the election and an “independent review.”. “There is no rational...

A hand recount of the election results in a Democratic primary for a Georgia county has seen the “winner” of the race drop to third place after it emerged that the voting machines were “off by thousands of ballots.” The audit has raised fresh concerns about election integrity after it emerged that the vote count was severely inaccurate. On Thursday, DeKalb County School Board member Marshall Orson, who is running for the county commission, asked the local election board not to certify results as scheduled because of “numerous errors” with the local race, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted. Instead, Orson requested...

Atlanta rapper Archie Eversole, best known for his stadium anthem "We Ready," was fatally shot, and his brother has been accused in the slaying, police said Thursday. Officers were called to a gas station March 25 and found the mortally wounded performer, DeKalb County police said. The victim, Arthur "Archie" Eversole was taken to a hospital before he died from his wounds April 3, police said. Eversole's brother, Alexander Kraus, has been charged with murder. He was arrested without incident less than a quarter-mile away the night of the shooting, officials said.

DeKalb County Elections Director Erica Hamilton resigned Thursday, roughly a month after she was placed on an extended leave of absence by elections board leaders. The five-member board voted unanimously to accept Hamilton’s resignation during a called special meeting. Election Board chairperson Dele Lowman Smith also announced the board will begin a nationwide search for Hamilton’s permanent replacement, along with a new deputy director position. No explanation was given for Hamilton’s leave of absence at the time, and election board members didn’t provide any details Thursday. In a statement, Lowman Smith said, “The Board thanks Ms. Hamilton for her service...

43,907 of the 61,731 absentee ballots deposited in drop boxes in the November 2020 presidential election in DeKalb County, Georgia–72 percent–were counted in official tallies certified by the county and the state, despite violating chain of custody requirements set forward in Georgia Emergency Rule 183-1-14-1.8-.14 promulgated by the Georgia State Election Board at its July 1, 2020, meeting. That rule states absentee ballots placed in drop boxes, “shall be immediately transported to the county registrar” by the two person collection team, which is required to sign a ballot transfer form indicating the number of ballots picked up, the time the...

When Fulton County, Ga., poll manager Suzi Voyles sorted through a large stack of mail-in ballots last November, she noticed an alarmingly odd pattern of uniformity in the markings for Joseph R. Biden. One after another, the absentee votes contained perfectly filled-in ovals for Biden — except that each of the darkened bubbles featured an identical white void inside them in the shape of a tiny crescent, indicating they’d been marked with toner ink instead of a pen or pencil. Adding to suspicions, she noticed that all of the ballots were printed on different stock paper than the others she...

A veteran Bronx superintendent once praised by Chancellor Richard Carranza for her successes in the classroom claims her career was derailed by his “equity” agenda — forcing her to take a demotion in a desperate bid to preserve her pension, according to a $150 million lawsuit. Karen Ames, a 30-year Department of Education employee, says she was targeted by Carranza’s “Disrupt and Dismantle” campaign to oust or marginalize longtime employees because she is over 40, and Jewish. “The agenda of Chancellor Carranza and his senior leadership team was euphemistically touted as an ‘equity platform’ but in reality, it was a...

CDMedia has written extensively about our investigation into Dekalb County, GA election fraud and specifically about the discovery of a receipt in trash receptacles outside Dekalb election facilities which showed an order for 25 million voter registration applications ordered prior to the Jan 6th U.S. Senate runoff in GA. The order dollar amount was $10 million.After an initial ‘stall’ for 30 days due to Covid and the fact that they are ‘so busy’, we received a communication yesterday that indeed they have found something related to this one page financial record but need another ’30 days’ to think about it....

A newly released body camera video shows officers pleading with a man to drop a knife before fatally shooting him at his DeKalb County condominium. Matthew Williams, 35, was killed by police Monday after bodycam footage appeared to show him chasing after an officer outside his home with the knife in his hand. It was an incident where the very premise of the 911 call was flawed, according to the body camera video and information provided by Chief Ramos. DeKalb Police arrived at a house where a neighbor had reported a prowler. “What are you doing here? You live here?”...

A DeKalb County elections manager has been terminated after county officials determined the individual “failed to follow our established protocols and blatantly disregarded processes” utilized to “account for and record all legal and verified ballots.” Officials of the Georgia county announced the employee’s termination in a Friday statement, explaining that the now-former employee is “the same person that made the human error in failing to follow protocols which caused our previous recertification.” “Since the employee’s departure, management’s corrective actions and reviews ultimately yielded 59 additional ballots that were omitted from our court,” officials said. Their internal reviews, the officials said,...