A profession legal who stabbed a grandmother to demise whereas attempting to steal her automotive had been ‘chased out of a liquor’ retailer simply minutes earlier than the killing after ‘attempting to rob them whereas brandishing a knife’.
Grandmother Ellen Bowles, 77, was attacked within the storage of her $800,000 dwelling in Buckhead, an prosperous suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday.
Her son Michael Bowles, 30, found his mom’s physique contained in the gated group as he arrived dwelling for the vacations.
Antonio Brown, 23, has been arrested on suspicion of homicide, aggravated battery, hijacking a motorized vehicle within the first diploma, possession of a knife and abuse of a disabled or aged particular person.
DailyMail.com can reveal that minutes earlier than the killing, Brown had threatened employees at a close-by liquor retailer with a knife earlier than being chased away. He then ‘hopped over’ the fence of the gated group.
Ellen Bowles, 77, was attacked by a thug who was attempting to steal her automotive. He had been ‘chased out of a liquor’ retailer simply minutes earlier than the killing after ‘attempting to rob them whereas brandishing a knife’
Antonio Brown, 23, has been arrested on suspicion of homicide, aggravated battery, hijacking a motorized vehicle within the first diploma, possession of a knife and abuse of a disabled or aged particular person
Workers at Buckland Wine and Liquor confirmed the incident to DailyMail.com however declined to remark additional.
Atlanta Police confirmed they have been known as to the world at 11:53am on December 10, round half an hour earlier than they estimated mother-of-two Bowles was killed.
DailyMail.com can even reveal that Brown has a number of prior legal convictions, together with a easy household assault in August 2020.
Court docket paperwork present that he hung out in jail for that cost in addition to a January 2020 cost referring to medicine and a hid weapon.
He was charged with shoplifting, a felony, however was launched on a pre-trial launch signature bone in 2019 March.
Locals within the space have now renewed their requires Buckhead to turn into its personal metropolis separate of Atlanta – after first proposing the transfer in 2008.
Deputy police Chief Charles Hampton Jr. stated it was believed that Brown bought into Bowles’s neighborhood by foot
An image of the person believed to be Antonio Brown was launched over the weekend. Brown has since been arrested and DailyMail.com can reveal he jumped into the group after trying to rob a liquor retailer
Bowles’ Buckhead dwelling, which is value practically $800,000, the place she was knifed to demise on Saturday
Initially, a publication was circulated proposing that the transfer might cut back residents’ taxes by 50 p.c, with the movement largely truly fizzling out.
However residents rekindled the thought in 2021 as a method of curbing violent crime rising within the space – with many now saying ‘sufficient is sufficient’ after Bowles ‘mindless’ demise.
Invoice White, the CEO of Buckland Metropolis Committee, has blasted Fulton County District Lawyer Fani Willis is ‘accountable’ for the demise of Bowles
He additionally claims that the world solely has 100 law enforcement officials however wants 270 to be staffed correctly – however residents usually solely have 15 to twenty officers on responsibility at one time.
Chatting with DailyMail.com he stated: ‘She moved into this gated group to be safer, and it’s simply horrifying.
‘It’s ridiculous that he was out from jail, he ought to be rotting in there. We now have a DA who has blood on her arms.
‘She and the judges who didn’t ship him to jail for these offences are accountable for this.
‘Buckhead individuals don’t hate their cops, we help our cops. However once they do not have the assets to guard us what can we do.
Grandmother Ellen Bowles, 77, was attacked within the storage of her Buckhead dwelling in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday. Her son Michael, pictured, found her physique
Ellen dances together with her son Michael. She was described as ‘type, valuable, humorous, loving’ on a GoFundMe web page arrange in her honor
‘We don’t fault the police in any respect, however they responded to a homicide name in over twenty minutes.
‘This man had been attempting to rob the liquor retailer close by and the police have been known as, if the cops had responded to that then this tragedy could have been prevented.
‘However they simply did not reply shortly to the reviews of a robber with a knife, which they need to have, however I do not blame the cops as they’re underfunded and undermanned.
‘The house owners of the shop noticed him on the video of the Lexus and so they contacted the police, the proprietor chased him a distance and he jumped a wall into the gated space.
‘An incident like this the place a phenomenal member of the group is stabbed to demise in her own residence, it’s galvanizing all people to make Buckhead their very own metropolis.’
Bowles’ son Michael, pictured, reportedly needed to wait greater than 20 minutes for police to reach on the scene after discovering his moms physique
Throughout a vigil outdoors her dwelling on Sunday, family and friends paid tribute to the grandmother as they lit candles and sang Weep Grace
At a vigil for Bowles, her son described her as his ‘North Star’ including that he bought there a ‘few hours too late’ after the incident.
Michael stated: ‘Discovering her like that’s one thing that will probably be with me ceaselessly. What occurred to her was her worst nightmare. It is most individuals’s worst nightmare.
‘I’m dedicated to getting the phrase out about this outrageous tragedy. I would like everybody to grasp that none of us are actually protected and if this could occur to mother, then it might occur to anybody.’
Police circulated photographs of a person believed to be Brown coming into Bowles’s 2021 Lexus SUV on the weekend and imagine that the grandmother could have walked in on him as he tried to steal the automotive.
Associates of the animal lover slammed her demise as a ‘actually mindless act’, and have launched a GoFundMe to lift cash for the Atlanta Humane Society – which has already raised practically $30,000.
Invoice White, the CEO of Buckland Metropolis Committee, is certainly one of many residents calling for Buckhead to have their very own funding as they don’t really feel like Atlanta can ‘defend them’ anymore
It isn’t clear how Brown could have entered the gated group, however cops believed that the homicide passed off between 11.30am and 12.30pm.
Her automobile was later found dumped in DeKalb county after being pushed all through town on Saturday.
Police admitted that they aren’t certain if multiple particular person is concerned within the killing, however up to now Brown is the one one to have been arrested.
In the course of the vigil outdoors her dwelling on Sunday, family and friends paid tribute to the grandmother as they lit candles and sang Weep Grace.
Deputy police Chief Charles Hampton Jr. stated it was believed that Brown bought into Bowles’ neighborhood by foot, however didn’t say how he made it previous the gate.
Hampton stated it was attainable Brown was aided by an confederate, and stated authorities have been persevering with to research.
‘We now have who we have been in search of proper now,’ Hampton stated in his announcement of Brown’s arrest.
Police are providing a $10,000 reward for info, which might be reported to Crime Stoppers Atlanta at 404-577-TIPS (8477) or www.crimestoppersatlanta.org.
