Thursday, January 31, 2013
Jurors took less than two hours to find Nkosi Thandiwe guilty in the shooting of three women in Midtown.
UPDATE: 5:17 pm Nkosi Thandiwe has been sentenced to life without parole. There was no rejoicing or tears visible when the verdict was announced in the courtroom, just a general sense of sadness. UPDATE: 4:30 pm Brian Watts, the husband of the woman who died in the shooting spree, testified during Thursday afternoon's sentencing hearing that he lost his soulmate the day his wife was killed. "I'm truly lost," he said. "I realize that the worst day of my life has passed, but I also realize the best days of my life are passed." Other members of the Watts family asked the judge to impose the maximum sentence of life without parole. "We lost a part of our heart, we will never be the same," said her grandmother, Rita Anderson. xxxxx Jurors …
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Nkosi Thandiwe is on trial for a lunch hour shooting that killed one woman and injured two others in the parking garage of the Proscenium building.
Survivors and witnesses to the July 2011 parking deck shooting in Midtown began testifying Tuesday in the trial of the former security guard charged in the case. Nkosi Thandiwe has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges connected to the July 2011 shooting spree at the Proscenium building that left Brittney Watts dead at the scene, injured Tiffany Ferenczy in the leg and paralyzed Lauren Garcia. Assistant Fulton County district attorney Linda Dunikoski told the jury Tuesday that Watts was killed by a gunshot wound to the neck, but she suffered other injuries as well, according to an AJC.COM report. The article said: “She had bruises on both her wrists, bruises on both her hips, she had lacerations across her stomach,” Dunikoski …
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Nkosi Thandiwe is charged with killing one woman and paralyzing another in the July 2011 shooting in a Midtown parking garage.
Jury selection is underway in the trial of the security guard accused of the July 2011 Midtown shooting spree that killed one woman and left another paralyzed. Patch was in Judge Kelly A. Lee’s Fulton County Superior Courtroom Monday morning as defense lawyers for Nkosi Thandiwe, 23, and Fulton Assistant District Attorney Linda Dunikoski questioned 60 potential jurors. During the lunch recess, attorneys involved declined to comment as the selection process was to continue throughout the afternoon. In November 2011, Thandiwe pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges connected to the July 15, 2011 triple shooting spree at the Proscenium building that left Roswell's Brittney Watts dead at the scene and Lauren Garcia paralyzed. Tiffany …
Monday, June 25, 2012
Nkosi Thandiwe's case is being turned over to a public defender and the murder trial is now on the January 11, 2013 docket
The security guard accused of the July 2011 Midtown shooting spree that killed one woman and left another paralyzed, is losing his defense lawyer, John Garland. Monday at Fulton County Superior Court, lawyers for Nkosi Thandiwe told Judge Kelly A. Lee that they would file a withdrawal motion this week, dropping Thandiwe as a client. Garland, who had had taken on the case pro bono, or free of charge, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Monday that it was the wishes of Thandiwe to be dropped. Outside the courtroom, another attorney working alongside Garland on the case explained further to Patch that it was a matter of finances. Two months ago, Garland’s request for court-provided financial aid to help mount a defense of Thandiwe, who …
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kelly A. Lee says Nkosi Thandiwe is capable of comprehending what was happening during a trial.
The security guard accused of shooting three women in Midtown last summer, killing one and leaving another paralyzed, is capable of standing trial Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kelly A. Lee ruled on Wednesday. The judge said that Nkosi Thandiwe, 23, is mentally competent and will faces felony murder and numerous other charges for his alleged actions during a July 15, 2011 shooting spree at the Proscenium building that left Brittany Watts dead and Lauren Garcia paralyzed. Prosecutors have charged Thandiwe with three counts of felony murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery, hijacking a car, aggravated battery and gun possession during the commission of a felony. Police say Thandiwe, who was a security …
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Court documents show that race may have played a role in last summer's triple-shooting rampage in Midtown that left one woman dead and another paralyzed.
Forty-five days after neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman shot and killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., a special prosecutor charged Zimmerman with second-degree murder on Wednesday. This is what thousands of protestors across the country had been demanding for weeks as the racially charged case has captivated the nation. Zimmerman, who has a white father and Hispanic mother, has said he acted in self-defense during the confrontation with Martin. This explanation has been scoffed at by protesters, such as the hundreds who rallied in Los Angeles on Monday, many carrying signs that read, "It's more than a march. It's a movement." But what about Brittany Watts and Lauren Garcia? They of course are the …
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