ATLANTA, Georgia – A former US Coast Guardsman accused of killing a lady and wounding 4 others in a taking pictures in an Atlanta medical constructing was denied bail on Thursday.
The suspected gunman, recognized as 24-year-old Deion Patterson, had waived his proper to seem on the court docket listening to throughout which Fulton County Magistrate Judge Holly Hughes denied bail and ordered him held on one rely of homicide and 4 counts of aggravated assault, her clerk mentioned.
The suspect is accused of opening fireplace within the Northside Medical facility within the metropolis’s busy Midtown space at about 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday. He then fled on foot to a close-by fuel station the place he commandeered a pickup truck that had been left working unattended and drove away.
He was taken into custody about eight hours later with out incident after an undercover officer noticed him north of the town in suburban Cobb County, police mentioned.
The lady killed within the taking pictures was 39-year-old Amy St. Pierre, an worker of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the company mentioned.
“Our hearts are with her family, friends, and colleagues as they remember her and grieve this tragic loss,” the company mentioned in an internet assertion.
The 4 wounded girls ranged in age from 25 to 71 and all 4 remained within the hospital on Thursday, officers mentioned. Two of them had been in vital situation and underwent extra surgical procedures at Grady Memorial Hospital on Thursday.
The wounded had been recognized in court docket paperwork as Lisa Glynn, Georgette Whitlow, Jazzmin Daniel and Alesha Hollinger.
Patterson had an appointment on the Midtown facility on Wednesday. The motive for the taking pictures and whether or not the suspect knew or particularly focused any of his victims had but to be decided, police mentioned.
The mom of the suspect mentioned he was upset that docs wouldn’t refill his prescription for an anti-anxiety drug, a neighborhood ABC affiliate and different media reported.
His mom, recognized as Minyone Patterson in native media, advised the Atlanta-Journal Constitution that her son had a “mental break.”
The gunman arrived on the medical middle together with his mom however she was not injured, police mentioned. They mentioned she and different relations had been cooperating with investigators.
Patterson joined the US Coast Guard in July 2018 and was discharged from lively responsibility in January, after having final served as an electrician’s mate second class. — Reuters
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