![]() There was a pretty big group of people on the street. I came out and stuck my head out onto Crescent. “I was seating tables when I heard four to five gunshots in quick succession,” Kupersmith said. He said rather than driving people inside, the shooting brought more people out of the nearby buildings. John Kupersmith, who works at Tin Lizzy’s, heard the gunshots from the restaurant’s patio. “When we came out, we saw a lady laying face-down in the middle of the street.” “We were crossing the street and we heard a ‘pop, pop, pop, pop’ and we ducked for cover inside the garage,” Smith said. Meredith Smith ran into the parking deck for cover when the shooting began. What followed was pandemonium, witnesses say. That’s when two of the victims got shot … my daughter and the other girl.” “The car was blocked and the next thing you know, the guy comes out of the car and started shooting. “All of a sudden, the car came out ,” Wright said. Rod Wright, Ferenczy’s father, told Channel 2 Action News his daughter was going to have lunch with a group of co-workers when gunfire exploded on Crescent Street. ![]() Police believe they may have been random victims. On another subject, here is the first detailed account of the shooting of Lauren Garcia and Tiffany Ferenczy that I’ve seen, from the AJC, July 18:Īs the gunman exited the parking garage, he fired several more shots, hitting Lauren Garcia, a 23-year-old intern for Midtown public relations firm the MSL Atlanta, and her co-worker, Tiffany Ferenczy, 24. ![]() You can guess at a possible motive-maybe he asked her for a date and Miss Watts said “No.” However, Nicholas Stix has a simpler and more plausible theory: And I repeat that Hip Hop Enquirer does not give any source for its statement that the police believe it was. If the two were acquainted, though, it can only have been briefly: Watts had worked in the Proscenium building for only about a month.įrom my Google search I see no indication that the Atlanta police have suggested that it was a spurned boyfriend revenge killing. Police haven’t yet offered a motive for the shootings, or determined whether the gunman targeted Watts or chose her at random. Nkosi Thandiwe, 22, of Atlanta, is charged with murder in Watts’ death he also faces two counts of aggravated assault in the shooting of two other women wounded in the same parking garage where Watts was gunned down Friday…. Just as she was an unlikely victim-a bubbly 26- year-old delighted with her life and only recently returned to her hometown-the suspect was an unlikely killer: not only a security guard but the church-going son of a high-achieving family, including a mother who is an attorney versed in death-penalty law. “Did I mention how I happy I am to be back here?” blogged the Roswell High School alum in a post dated June 29.īut police were struck by the brazen nature of the crime they described as an ambush.ĭetail by emerging detail, the Midtown lunch-hour killing of Brittney Fox Watts only grew more baffling-and more deeply unsettling-Monday.Ītlanta Police Department Police say they believe that Nkosi Thandiwe ambushed Brittany Watts, 26, of Decatur, in a Midtown garage at lunchtime Friday. The digital planning supervisor and her husband, both UGA graduates, had moved to Florida in 2008. It seems unlikely security guard Nkosi Thandiwe would’ve known 26-year-old Brittney Watts, who transferred from 22squared’s Tampa office only last month. Police have yet to confirm whether the suspect in Friday’s Midtown shooting specifically targeted the woman who was slain. Let’s see if there is anything that has been said on this point. So I guess the spurned lover angle can’t be dismissed. ![]() At the same time, however, unless the killing is completely motiveless,-which I suggested as a possibility, but which also seems very unlikely given the way the killer deliberately targeted this particular woman-it must have some motive. The idea that in that little month this happily married young woman had an affair with a security guard working in her building and then she spurned him which drove him to kill her in revenge seems rather unlikely. She had taken her job in that building one month ago. Watts had recently moved back to Atlanta with her husband. It’s a statement without any context or factual support. ![]() It doesn’t give the basis for the police supposedly thinking that it was a revenge killing. The story doesn’t reference any police sources. “Police believe the suspect waited for the victim to return to the parking garage in what they characterized as a possible revenge killing.” Here is the totality of what the linked story says on that point: Hip Hop Enquirer states that it was a possible revenge killing, i.e., Spurned Black Boyfriend Syndrome. Was the murder of Britney Watts a revenge killing? ![]()
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