GADSDEN, Ala. (WIAT)– A tiny coffin amidst a sea of mourners. Friends, family, and a grieving mother were forced to say goodbye to 20-month-old child Maliyah Lindsay. Her funeral was held at Mission Baptist Church Saturday afternoon. Balloons were released during the service.
Maliyah’s body was found Tuesday off Plainview Road in Gadsden. Her father, 34-year-old Stephon Lindsay, is charged with the murder.
The former Atlanta Hawk spent 11 seasons in the NBA and had three consecutive All-Star seasons. He drowned Aug. 6 off the Caribbean island of Aruba while helping his wife as she struggled in rough water. He was 59.
The Hawks announced that his funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Norcross. The service is open to the public.
Viewing will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at Gregory B. Levett and Sons Funeral Home in Lawrenceville.
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Services were held Thursday morning at the Flagler Memorial Presbyterian Church.Following the service, a procession filled with members of law enforcement led the way to the St. Augustine Memorial Park.Perry joined the Sheriffs Office in 1974 and spent 20 years as sheriff before retiring in 2004. The countys Criminal Justice Complex is being renamed in Perrys honor.Perry was born in St. Augustine on May 19, 1945, and dedicated his life to his family and community. He began his law enforcement career as an auxiliary officer with the St. Augustine Police Department in 1968, and in 1974 became a member of the St. Johns County Sheriffs Office.
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No arrests were made after the shootings that followed a DeKalb County funeral because investigators say the two gunmen shot and killed each other.
While it’s not clear what led to a fight that ended in deadly gunfire Thursday at Victory for the World Church near Stone Mountain, an increased police presence is expected when funerals are held for the latest two killed, the county’s public safety director said Friday.
Investigators believe that as a funeral ended around 2:30 p.m. Thursday for 19-year-old homicide victim Ryan Devon Guider, words were exchanged, and a fight started.
One of Guider’s friends, 19-year-old Carlos Henderson Jr., was ambushed, William Miller, DeKalb public safety director, told reporters Friday.
“The group assaulted him. He managed to get to his car after escaping them,” Miller said. “He got a gun. He fired. Don’t know if we was trying to fire in self defense. And then someone else got a gun, shot and killed him.”
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To most of the world, he is known as the Miami Zombie.But the friends and family of Rudy Eugene, who gathered Saturday morning at Grace Funeral Home in Miami to remember the 31 year-old shot and killed by police during a bizarre attack on the MacArthur Causeway, remember him differently.Marckenson Eugene, one of Rudy’s younger siblings, said his late brother “had always been there for him” and would constantly do things such as pay his cell phone bill for him and even throw in a little extra cash when money was tight.
“He was the type of person who would give you his last,” Eugene said. “If he had it, it was yours.”About 150 people attended the private service led by Pastor Keny Felix, who had known Rudy since childhood, when he had attended Sunday school.Felix told the crowd to think of the late man’s family and pray for them and their time of grief. He also asked them to think of “the homeless man [Ronald Poppo] who was affected by Rudy’s actions.”
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