Thursday, June 30, 2011

Fulton, GA: Suspect in south Fulton shooting recently released from jail

A man wanted for shootings early Wednesday morning that left one dead and injured two others in south Fulton County was released from jail earlier this month on violent charges.

Sammy Lee Roberts, 22, is accused of the shooting incident reported just before 3 a.m. Wednesday at the Hickory Park apartments on Delano Road.

He was released June 2 from the Fulton County jail after a May 3 arrest on charges of battery, family violence, visible harm, criminal trespass and property damage, according to jail records.

As of Thursday morning, Fulton County police were still looking for Roberts, who is considered armed and dangerous, police Sgt. Scott McBride said.

Seven people shot were shot, two fatally, in three separate incidents in the Atlanta area Wednesday.

Six of the shootings, and both fatalities, took place at apartment complexes in DeKalb and south Fulton counties. A seventh person was wounded in a shooting in southwest Atlanta.

Officers responding to a 2:20 a.m. call about a domestic dispute at the Colony at Stone Mountain, a ramshackle apartment complex on Chatfield Drive off North Hairston Road, "discovered that multiple victims had been shot," DeKalb police spokesman Lloyd Ruffin said.

One victim, a man believed to be in his 20s, was killed, Ruffin said. Another man and a woman were taken to local hospitals in critical condition, he said.

Ruffin said officers located the suspect, who was holding two children and an adult female hostage near the incident scene. The suspect, whose name was not released, was taken into custody, he said.

The suspect, who was armed with a handgun, was charged with murder, aggravated assault and kidnapping.

In addition to those incidents, Atlanta police are investigating an overnight shooting that left a man in serious but stable condition.

Channel 2 reported that the man was shot near the intersection of Weyman and Ridge avenues in a southwest Atlanta neighborhood off University Avenue.

--Staffer Angel K. Brooks contributed to this report.

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