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Vol. 48, No. 13
Suspect in hit-and-run turns self in Wednesday at 3:01 p.m. She was released on $4,000 bond later the same day, according to
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A Lilburn woman has been accused of checking the damage to her minivan and driving off after hitting Amanda a 15-year-old boy on his Simpson bike in Snellville last week. Amanda Simpson, the jail log. 29, turned herself in to Simpson is accused of Gwinnett County jail on hitting Myles Bonn, 15,
as he was riding his bike west on Dogwood Road on his way home from school Oct. 6. Some of his friends, including Matthew Webb and Samuel Mauldin, saw him pass them as they walked home from school together. “He rides his bike to and from school every day,” Mauldin said. “It’s a pretty normal thing.”
That Friday, Bonn was riding his bike on the road to avoid the crowd of teenagers on the sidewalk. Once he biked past the crowd, Bonn raised his left arm to signal to the cars behind him that he was about to cross the doubleyellow line in order to pass back onto the sidewalk. But the 2013 Dodge Journey minivan behind
Bonn swerved over the double-yellow line at the same time as Bonn. Simpson was attempting to pass the teenager, according to warrants. “Then she clipped the back tire of his bike,” Webb said. Webb said he watched Bonn’s bike come up onto the minivan’s hood. Webb, Mauldin and the other
teenagers sprinted to the scene to make sure Bonn was OK. That’s when Webb said he saw the minivan pull into a driveway down the street. A woman got out. “I thought she was going to come and say something to (Bonn),” Webb said. Witnesses told police
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Cops: SWAT team shoots woman twice Police allegedly fired at first during high risk arrest warrant delivery FROM STAFF REPORTS The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating after a Gwinnett County SWAT officer shot a woman who’d been shooting at police while they tried to serve drug-related warrants in Buford on Thursday morning. The woman, whose name has not been released, was taken to Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville with “very serious injuries,” said Cpl. Michele Pihera. The shooting began about 6:30 a.m., when the Gwinnett SWAT team was
School day stroll
Suwanee Mayor Jimmy Burnette, right, and councilmember Linnea Miller participate in Wednesday morning’s Walk to School Day at Roberts Elementary School in Suwanee. (Photos: Karl L. Moore)
Students explore the benefits to health and environment of walk to Roberts Elementary
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Fourth-grader Ethan Surprenant usually takes the bus to Roberts Elementary School, but Wednesday he did something a little bit different. “I walked up the hill to my school,” the 9-year-old said. “My favorite part was climbing up the last big hill.” Surprenant was one of more than 100 kids who skipped the bus or the carpool to hike up the path beside the elementary school in Suwanee as part of Roberts Elementary School’s Walk To School Day Wednesday morning. “You know, this is the biggest one we’ve had,” said Principal Dion Jones, watching as a
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steady stream of students and parents emerged into the school parking lot at the end of the path. Roberts Elementary School’s Parent Teacher Organization has been hosting Walk To School Day once a year since the school opened in 2010. The school operates in a bus community, Jones said. Most families live too far away to safely send their children walking to school. But once a year, the school encourages families to drive to Ruby Forest — a neighborhood
Kids make their way along the path during Wednesday morning’s Walk to School Day at Roberts Elementary School in SuSee WALK, Page 6A wanee.
Gwinnett County is the poster child for how communities should handle their water, Gov. Nathan Deal said during Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful’s Governor’s Environmental Address at the Infinite Energy Center Wednesday. Water played a major part of Deal’s speech, which was hosted by Gwinnett Clean and MORE ONLINE Beautiful. Deal Visit gwinnettdailypost.com for photos from the address. took the speech as an opportunity to address what he saw as fair access to water for communities such as Gwinnett. He also took it as opportunity to praise Gwinnett leaders for their work to clean used water and return it to Lake Lanier and local watersheds. “You continue to be my poster child, and I don’t just say these things whenever I come to Gwinnett County,” Deal said. “I say these things all over the state of Georgia because you are my poster child for
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