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Filename: D7-METRO-AJCD0711-3THRE created: Jul 10 2007 Username: SPEED4 AJCD0711-3DOT Wednesday, Jul 11, 2007 METRO 7 3DOT 7 Cyan Magenta Yellow Black 7 Cyan Magenta Yellow Black 3DOT File name: D7-METRO-AJCD0711-3THRE created: Jul 10 2007 Username: SPEED4 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ajc.com 3 Wednesday, July 11, 2007 D7 Six Flags worker, another teen arrested in beating By YOLANDA Cobb County police have arrested two teens, including a Six Flags Over Georgia employee, in the beating last week of a Marietta teenager just outside the amusement park. Police viewed park video as part of their investigation and expect to make more arrests. got your names. If we have them, we will have Cobb Public Safety Director Mickey Lloyd said on Tuesday. camaraderie for all and all for on the street hold water when somebody is sitting in police custody by themselves being questioned.

They are going to tell who you Police believe the other assailants all believed to be young live in west and south Atlanta. As many as 25 people were involved in the July 3 beating or know who was involved, said Maj. Paula Sparks, head of the Crimes Against Persons Unit. Police arrested Brad M. Johnson, 18, on Monday at his home in Atlanta.

Christy Poore, manager of public relations for Six Flags, that Johnson worked at the park in south west Cobb County. Poore said Johnson a season employee, and I go into more because this is an investigation. I can say he was not on duty the day of the Johnson was charged with violation of the gang act and aggravated battery, both felonies. He also was charged with battery and simple assault, both misdemeanors. He is held at the Cobb Jail on $100,000 bond.

A 16-year-old from Marietta was charged with violation of the gang act and being a party to aggravated battery. The police release his name because a juvenile. Lloyd said the two were arrested Monday afternoon as Cobb were having a news conference to announce an additional $20,000 pledged for a reward fund. Six Flags contributed half of that amount. The reward, which totals $25,000, was offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of assailants.

Lloyd said police held back announcing the arrests because they were still identifying the people involved. Joshua Martin of Marietta was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in critical condition after a beating so severe that a shoe imprint was left on his forehead. A witness told Cobb police that the attack was His mother, Barbara Martin, could not be reached. A man who himself as her outside their Marietta home said he did know of the arrests and declined to comment. The 19-year-old was in fair condition Tuesday, a spokeswoman said.

Joshua Martin, his brother, Gerard, and a teenage friend, Devin Antonio Carter, were confronted by the group, between 10 and 15 people, as they were walking toward a bus stop outside the amusement park about 9:30 p.m. He said the attackers may have had an earlier confrontation with another man and his family while at the park. Annette Kesting, who represents southwest Cobb on the County Commission, had criticized Six initial hands-off response, as the company claimed the attack had occurred outside its property. On Tuesday, she was proud that this was taken care Staff writers Jeffry Scott, Jeremy Redmon and Christian Boone contributed to this article. lawyer shocked by abduction By S.A.

REID A lawyer for a local entrepreneur believed kidnapped from her DeKalb County apartment complex last week said Tuesday his client showed no signs of problems during their meeting hours before her abduction. Gerald Griggs said Monica Renee Bowie was in good spirits when she headed home from his Decatur about 4 p.m. last Thursday. Griggs learned about her strange disappearance through media reports Saturday. was a shock to me.

The last time I saw Monica, you would have never thought something like this was going to happen to Griggs said, adding later, was smiling and laughing. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary; nothing seemed to be troubling Neighbors in Berkshire apartment complex reported hearing screams for help coming from a parking lot just before a 2002 Mercury Sable sped away. Witnesses, however, see Bowie, 34, being forced into the car. Police later found evidence of a struggle at the scene. Griggs described Bowie as an member of the community who owns several companies.

The list includes Go2girl Promotions an entertainment promotions company in metro Atlanta by a number of top hip-hop acts, and LaCoca Wear Clothing, a boutique on Metropolitan Parkway in southwest Atlanta. Bowie had no criminal history before her June 20 arrest on drug and weapon possession charges by Atlanta police, said Griggs and relatives, who consider her recent legal troubles and kidnapping unrelated. The Cheyney University of Pennsylvania graduate was arrested in June after she went to retrieve her car from a crime scene, Griggs said. According to an Atlanta police report, Shernotta Walters was spotted standing in a Campbellton Road parking lot by an who a strong odor of The had Walters point out his car, where marijuana, cash and a were found. When Bowie arrived, she reported Walters, her boyfriend, had borrowed her car, and she also was arrested.

Bowie denied ownership of weapon or drugs found in the vehicle, Griggs said. The charges against Bowie, Griggs said, subsequently were dismissed in Fulton County Magistrate Court. Dennis Scheib, an Atlanta lawyer representing Walters, said he learned of disappearance from his client who called him crying and screaming into the phone. The charges against Walters, 35, were dismissed after police failed to show up at his probable cause hearing. But Walters, a parolee, remains in the Fulton County Jail, Scheib said, until a parole board decides on his release because of the new charges.

Walters went to prison in July 2004 on a drug conviction in Cobb County. He was paroled in April 2006, according to the state Department of Corrections database. Meanwhile, mother and two sisters have arrived in town but have declined to talk to the media. is shock to Griggs said. just want her returned Bowie grew up in Pittsburgh and has three siblings.

Police arrested Jasper Keels, 24, on Saturday in connection with the Sable used in the kidnapping that was found torched in northeast Atlanta. charged with theft of taking of a car and drug possession. Authorities have not connected Keels to the abduction. Staff writer David Simpson contributed to this article. By MONI BASU and DREW JUBERA Pulitzer Prize-winner Doug Marlette skewered politicians as an editorial cartoonist for The Atlanta Constitution and the Tulsa World, but used a lighter touch in his daily strip, Kudzu.

Focused on the foibles of a Zen-master garage mechanic (Dub), a tobacco-chewing preacher (the Rev. Will B. Dunn) and other residents of a Southern town called Bypass, Kudzu offered what scholar John Shelton Reed calls an In 1998, Mr. Marlette and collaborators turned Kudzu into a stage play. This summer, he began working with students in Oxford, who were preparing a version of the play headed for the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Tuesday, Mr. Marlette was killed in a single-car accident near Oxford, authorities said. He was 57. Mr. Marlette was a passenger in the car, which struck a tree in wet conditions just before 10 a.m., said John Garrison, the coroner in Marshall County.

it hydroplaned, left the highway and struck the tree. There was heavy rain in the area at the Mr. Marlette won a Pulitzer in 1988 for cartoons he drew for the Constitution and the Charlotte Observer. He also worked at New York Newsday and The Tallahassee Democrat, and wrote two novels. Bland Simpson, who co- wrote the stage version of Kudzu with Mr.

Marlette, said that his friend excelled in every area of his interests he ever did anything halfway I know what it But, he said, Mr. Marlette considered himself a journalist At the time of winning his Pulitzer, Mr. Marlette said that his biting approach could be traced in part to grandmother bayoneted by a guardsman during a mill strike in the Carolinas. There are some rebellious genes around in Mr. Reed, retired profes sor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, said of Marlette, was absolutely fearless.

He care who he offended, and sometimes he was a little disappointed when he offend Born in Greensboro, N.C., and raised in Durham, N.C., Mr. Marlette graduated from Florida State University. Tallahassee attorney Rick Johnson recalled the day when Mr. Marlette, a philosophy major at the university, stumbled into the third- student union of the college paper, the Florida Flambeau. He was shy, modest.

He even prefaced the opening of his portfolio with disparaging comments about his work, said Mr. Johnson, then the opinion editor. His stuff would you in the he said. drew perfect cartoon images. Local stuff, campus One of his favorite subjects was Stanley Marshall, a former president of FSU.

Mr. Marlette had him down cold, Mr. Johnson recalled, big nose and all. was never much in the way of subtlety about Mr. Johnson said, is kind of funny because of his personality was so In a speech given at Clayton State College in January 1989, Mr.

Marlette described his craft. His caricatures of famous people must capture the spirit of the individual, he said, as well as the likeness of their face. kind of like when you recognize somebody walking 100 yards down the beach, before you can make out the features, you can tell who it is. the quality trying to get at in He said he was among the to poke fun at Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. was into televangelists before tel evangelists were he said.

Mr. Marlette, who grew up a Southern Baptist, said Jim Bakker used to call him a of Mr. Pulitzer entry included a controversial cartoon that depicted the Rev. Jerry Falwell, who at the time was in charge of the PTL ministry, as the serpent in the Garden of Eden. seems par for the course today that powerful televan gelists might be ridiculed, but at the time it was very said Cynthia Tucker, AJC editorial page editor and winner of this Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

was still a rising star among conservative Christians who make a big part of the readership of the Constitution and the Charlotte Observer. At the time, it was a bold act to take him In a 2003 issue of Columbia Journalism Review, Mr. Marlette wrote on the outrage that at times surrounded his work. need the First Amendment to allow us to run boring, inoffensive cartoons. We need constitutional protection for our right to express unpopular views.

If we discuss the great issues of the day on the pages of our newspapers fearlessly, where can we discuss Mr. Marlette delighted in poking believers of every the ideas that punch my ticket means following the heat of passion through totems and he said in a 1988 Observer interview. Still, the largest response he got from readers up until 1989 was from a cartoon of a bald eagle shedding a tear over the Challenger tragedy. There were more than 70,000 requests for reprints. accident in Holly Springs, occurred at 9:42 a.m.

near the West Holly Springs exit on U.S. 78 East, according to the South Reporter newspaper. The driver, who has not been was transported to Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford. Staff writers Moni Basu, Bo Emerson and Drew Jubera, McClatchy Newspapers and The Associated Press contributed to this article. OBITUARIES HAMPTON Charles Little, golfer, biker By KAY POWELL The U.S.

Air Force was Charles R. ticket out of Hampton, where he was born at home and worked hard on the family cattle farm. The family complex on Little Road called him back when he retired as a master sergeant in 1983. He settled into a life of golf, motorcycle trips and a new job as a hospital security guard. Mr.

Little probably took the retirement job because it reminded him of being in the military, and he liked wearing the uniform, said his son Vince Little of Yokota Air Base, Japan. tried to always tell him, you put golf and work said his golfing buddy Vernon Moss of Stockbridge. The funeral for Mr. Little, 64, of Hampton, who died of a cancer called mesothelioma on Saturday at Sacred Journey Hospice, is 10 a.m. today at Conner-Westbury Funeral Home in When he playing golf or working as a ranger or starter at the Links or Edge golf courses, Mr.

Little was watching golf on television. He even played in 30-degree weather in Detroit where he met his wife, Betty Glasgo Little. The high point of his golf life was a toss-up between his dream visit to Augusta National to see his golf heroes Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus during Masters practice rounds, his wife said, and the hole-in-one he made at the Links on June 21, 1995. was the kind of father I never had to look far to his son said. had me on the golf course with him at 5.

He had four of his clubs mod for me a driver, a iron, a nine iron and a putter. We still have them in the Mr. Little and Mr. Moss played in scrambles, where the best ball in a foursome is played by all. Mr.

ball was best 75 percent of the time. other 25 percent was when I was aggravating him before he Mr. Moss said. was maybe a par golfer. We played tournaments together, and he beat me every It was hard being a student and athlete at Henry County High School and working on the cattle farm, his son said, but Mr.

Little perfected his batting skill in between chores. would get out behind the barn and bat corn kernels with a stick. He said that really sharpened his eye, whacking the his son said. He was a right-hander in the threw right-handed and was a switch hitter until he stuck to batting left-handed, his son said. He grew up with six brothers and a sister.

Sunday afternoons found them with their friends playing baseball on a they created on the family farm. Mr. Little resumed an earlier sport, motorcycle riding, about eight years ago. He delighted in day trips with his wife to FDR State Park, she on her Honda 750 Shadow ACE and he riding his Honda 1100 Shadow ACE. would ride every Monday.

I mean, we would ride. We would go to Warm Springs and eat at He just loved the hills. He would get up on the hills at FDR Delano Roosevelt State where you can see the countryside for miles. the Southern mountain range. That trip is just curves, a motorcycle she said.

Mr. nature was evident on the links and off. never heard Charles use Mr. Moss said. lot of times out on the golf course you hear that sort of thing.

I never heard it from His son saw him as good hearted. was a very gentle man by nature, he really his son said. had a gentle spirit. He was so kind, so And friendly, his wife said: said he should have been named Survivors include another son, Ted Little of Hampton; four brothers, Bill Little, Richard Little and Steve Little, all of Hampton, and Johnny Little of Jonesboro; and a sister, June Taylor of Jonesboro. TOM GILBERT Tulsa World Doug Marlette Family photo would ride every said Betty Little of her husband Charles Little just loved the A career master sergeant in the Air Force, he worked as a hospital security guard upon retirement and at two golf courses.

He was known for never cursing while playing golf himself. Doug Marlette, editorial cartoonist MISSISSIPPI ON THE WEB: For Doug Marlette timeline and cartoons: www.ajc.com Jones said. McDade, whose prosecuted Wilson, did not return calls Tuesday from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. But McDade told The Associated Press that he was required to release the tape under the open records law because it was introduced as evidence at the trial. law is very McDade told the AP.

McDade also told the AP that Jones was among those who requested the videotape a claim Jones denied. An edited version of the tape was played on some local newscasts, and copies of it were viewed by some legislators earlier this year at the state Capitol. At the time, lawmakers were being asked by Jones to consider passing a law that might have allowed a judge to reduce sentence. Former DeKalb County District Attorney J. Tom Morgan dismissed argument about the open- records law.

The former prosecutor said distributing or possessing the video was a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison unless it was done for reasons of law enforcement, educational, medical or purposes. Morgan said even allowing reporters and legislators to view the video at the district which McDade has done, violated the law. who possess that tape is in violation of the Morgan said. tried a lot of child pornography cases and what would typically happen is the judge would seal the record and order the prosecutor to keep it locked in a box until a higher court needed to review The judge who presided over case did not seal the video. McDade emphasized in a previous interview that the tape showed legislators that the case about a teenage tryst but showed something more akin to a gang rape involving a 17-year-old victim and child molestation of a 15- year-old girl.

Wilson was also charged with rape but was acquitted. Karen Worthington, director of the Barton Child and Policy Clinic at Emory University, questioned ethics in distributing the video, but she said the law and court rulings might allow him to show it to legislators who were concerned about his handling of the case. could argue that since the Legislature was considering passing law based on this case, they should be able to view it for educational Worthington said. Wilson: Senator seeks an investigation Continued from D1 W.A. BRIDGES JR.

Staff Genarlow Wilson 21, who was 17 years old at the time, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for receiving oral sex from a then-15-year-old girl..