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The amount of conflict that we’re seeing in our society and the inability to deescalate situations is certainly playing a factor with our homicides here in the city of Atlanta.”","_id":"DCSRV7Z2FFGORIHVLHDSDVADUM","additional_properties":"comments":[],"_id":"NB2WROQVKVFT7HKXCW6RU5H7KU","type":"interstitial_link","content":"Youth suicides spike in Georgia in 2021","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/youth-suicides-spike-in-georgia-in-2021/UKBZ7HL44FAJ7NUXUOIET56R7A/","_id":"ZVTNKVCX7RFTFJ36AYYSAKPU3I","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652300542546,"type":"text","content":"In 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic spread, there were 45,222 gun-related deaths in the U.S., according to CDC data. More than half of those deaths were suicides and a little more than 40% were homicides.","_id":"C374HSVI2VGQ5ASFKE2KWC6UMY","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652300542547,"type":"text","content":"According to the CDC, homicide rates involving firearms are usually highest among males, teenagers, and young adults. In 2020, the rates increased in all age groups, with the highest rates found for those between 10–44 years old. Non-Hispanic Black persons had the highest rates and increases, the CDC reported.","_id":"DBAIOAHRLFB7PHLDLURBI6RZCY","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652215824202,"type":"text","content":"“Firearm deaths are preventable — not inevitable — and everyone has a role to play in prevention,” said Dr. Debra Houry, the CDC’s acting principal deputy director and director of the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. “Resources like CDC’s violence prevention technical packages and surveillance systems can give leaders tools to lay the foundation for healthier and safer communities.”","_id":"VAP2KTNYANHSFF34E6TADTOLQE","additional_properties":"comments":[],"_id":"FVH3OANUIVGSRAZKF2LKQ2N62U","type":"divider","_id":"3HFSPVQCC5HOJEINOJUXANJQJQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652296162808,"type":"text","content":"MORE DETAILS","_id":"3ARB6BTDSNBDPDOPGONTW3EOCI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652296162809,"type":"text","content":"In Atlanta, roughly 92% percent of the city’s 2021 homicides involved a firearm, according to data previously released by the Atlanta Police Department. 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All calls are free and confidential.","_id":"F3JWQUR555HNPKTJRIRUHFOYIY","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652215824206,"type":"text","content":"To find a mental health service provider, visit mygcal.com."],"display_date":"2022-05-10T20:53:17.013Z","headlines":"basic":"CDC: Deaths by firearms increase 35%, especially in impoverished areas","first_publish_date":"2022-05-10T20:53:17.013Z","taxonomy":{"sections":["path":"/news/crime","parent":"default":"/news","_website":"ajc","parent_id":"/news","name":"Crime & Public Safety","description":"Crime in Atlanta: News and issues about crime, criminals, police and personal security in metro Atlanta. 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YSL, or Young Stoner Life, is also the name of Young Thug’s record label.","_id":"FBOJD36DYBHJXBU3XEBYZNZXQQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652190648023,"type":"text","content":"“As associates of the enterprise Young Slime Life, the defendants conspired to associate together and with others for the common purposes of illegally obtaining money and property through a pattern of racketeering activity” that includes murder, assault and other acts of violence, the indictment alleges.","_id":"IAQOD6D53VHQDERFSKGPVHMUWQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652199095526,"type":"text","content":"According to prosecutors, the gang started in the area of Cleveland Avenue in 2012. The indictment named Walter Murphy, aka “DK,” and Trontavious Stephens, aka “Tick” and “Slug,” as co-founders alongside Williams. As Williams rose to stardom, so did the profile of YSL thanks to frequent mentions in his music, prosecutors said.","_id":"U3CCCVZUSJAMLJMQLDMWPBYVTY","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652208846088,"type":"text","content":"Willis was asked about her decision to use the rapper’s often violent lyrics against him and his alleged associates. The DA called the First Amendment “one of our most precious rights,” but argued free speech doesn’t protect someone from having their own words become evidence in a criminal proceeding.","_id":"KNX4HC6IDZDP7I77IWETRBAAYE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652208846090,"type":"text","content":"Steel, Williams’ attorney, said his client’s songs were simply a form of self-expression. “It’s offensive to take a musical artist’s poetry and then twist it out of context into crimes,” he said.","_id":"M5UUNJTTSBFZFGNBT5VMDOJYRE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652204968980,"type":"text","content":"Willis hinted at the pending RICO indictment last month, when Eppinger, an alleged gang member also known as Bhris, was granted bond in the police officer’s shooting.","_id":"MUK242HRZJFPRLUGZI66VEGA5E","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652204968981,"type":"text","content":"Williams, whose arrest made national headlines Monday evening, was taken into custody during an Atlanta police raid at his Buckhead home.","_id":"YA7G3WFY55FXDENME3PADCVKPU","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652207375793,"type":"text","content":"“It does not matter what your notoriety is, what your fame is,” Willis said. “If you come to Fulton County, Georgia, and you commit crimes ... you are going to become a target and a focus of this district attorney’s office.”","_id":"7PKUULB43ZE7HEVOUYEAQUFSTA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652204968982,"type":"text","content":"— Staff writer Tamar Hallerman contributed to this article."],"display_date":"2022-05-10T20:10:41.859Z","headlines":"basic":"Fulton DA casts rapper Young Thug’s indictment as victory against crime","first_publish_date":"2022-05-10T19:03:36.540Z","taxonomy":{"sections":["path":"/news/crime","parent":"default":"/news","_website":"ajc","parent_id":"/news","name":"Crime & Public Safety","description":"Crime in Atlanta: News and issues about crime, criminals, police and personal security in metro Atlanta. 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WATCH: UPDATE - 1 dead at SE #Atlanta apartments after nearby shooting, police say - https://t.co/7MiRGqByX8 pic.twitter.com/zuQwoIylZq

— John Spink (@johnjspink) May 10, 2022

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Prosecutors allege that two associates of YSL, CHRISTIAN EPPINGER and ANTONIO SUMLIN, worked to get permission of @youngthug to make a 2nd attempt to murder @YFNLUCCI while he’s jailed in Fulton County. @wsbtv @MarkWinneWSB

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WATCH: BREAKING - Officer-involved shooting investigation underway in NW Atlanta- https://t.co/6ZJhfWkGGN pic.twitter.com/99NJXwRETq

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Chappell blamed the attention for damaging his congressional bid.","_id":"USY5Y5CTMRFKZJ5KAM7FKPZRZA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652123654304,"type":"text","content":"In 2016, Chappell resigned in lieu of termination from the Glynn County Police Department after he misused a state crime database and sexually harassed a woman who tended bar at a bowling alley where he had worked as an off-duty officer, according to an investigative report. The woman told investigators Chappell, who was married, had sent her vulgar text messages and had offered to send her photos of his genitals.","_id":"ZOVMENRO6NAC5IXOUW3AJHTKFQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652123654305,"type":"text","content":"Chappell was on duty late at night in February 2016 and used his patrol car to follow the woman home from her job, an internal investigative report said. The woman said Chappell tried to touch her and asked her if he could come to her apartment with her and when she rebuffed him, he picked her up and kissed her on the neck. When she reported the incident months later, she told investigators that she had seen her car tag number on a computer screen inside of Chappell’s patrol car the night he followed her.","_id":"MTEBXWTSORB6BEPKJEU3NHIIMM","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652123654306,"type":"text","content":"The Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council investigated Chappell’s actions and placed his state certification on two years probation in July 2017. He was hired by the McIntosh County Sheriff’s Office less than a year later in June 2018, but was fired from that department after about six months.","_id":"EFJ6KKDAVRATPI3ZRGPFHFWP6Q","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652123654307,"type":"text","content":"According to Chappell’s personnel file, the sheriff had issued him a warning after Chappell showed coworkers nude photos of himself and another female sheriff’s office employee having sex together with another woman. Chappell was reprimanded for posting inappropriate messages on social media that the sheriff found reflected poorly on the department. He allegedly contacted a female Glynn County police officer while on duty and extended an open invitation for her to have sex with him, records show.","_id":"3J6IRYUHQZBZROETZFGBUHZY5Q","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652126226131,"type":"text","content":"Chappell was also linked to an episode where he was accused of following a woman home in his patrol car outside his jurisdiction in McIntosh County. Chappell was fired from the McIntosh sheriff’s office one day after a police report was filed in that incident, though the incident was not listed as the reason for his termination.","_id":"DNCIVVXC25BZLPV654AKTRCLHQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652123654312,"type":"text","content":"Chappell has staunchly denied the claims, saying both the investigative report and police report were “absolutely false allegations” against him.","_id":"JH2PLO36ZNEWNMEUT4WVZQ4YWI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1652123654313,"type":"text","content":"“And they’re extremely defamatory,” Chappell previously told the AJC. “These kinds of allegations threatened to tear my family apart. 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