Author: Don Fletcher

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Witnesses who were inside the McDonald’s on South Main Street when gunfire erupted Sunday night said a female employee fired “several shots” inside the restaurant after being assaulted by her former boyfriend.Atmore police have labeled the gunfire “an accidental discharge,” and said the female “is signing warrants” on the man who attacked her. Nobody was injured by flying bullets.The first police report, issued Monday morning,…

16-year-old boy charged as adult By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Escambia County District Attorney Steve Billy reportedly made the decision to try a 16-year-old Atmore boy as an adult in the February 20 shooting death of the 16-year-old girl he had been dating.The suspect, who cannot be identified under Alabama law, was taken into custody shortly after he shot Escambia County High School volleyball player Janyia Wilson, 16, then drove…

Candlelight and balloons in Janyia’s memory By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer More than 150 people gathered Sunday night, February 26, at Houston Avery Park to remember Janyia Wilson, the 16-year-old Escambia County High School student athlete who was shot to death recently by a teen she had been dating.Friends, classmates, family members — including the young shooting victim’s mother, Mary “Camille” Johnson — and others paid tribute to the young…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore City Council, sitting two members short, accepted bids from a Mobile firm to conduct the city’s planned 21-street resurfacing project and from a Flomaton firm to handle the widening of Carpet Drive.The council also approved a request from Atmore’s Yellow Hats Society to name the road in front of the pool at Houston Avery Park “George Mosby Drive” after the legendary Escambia County Training…