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Around the Region: Girl Escapes Abduction, Man Assaulted With Shovel and Propane Tanks Explode in Fire

A look at top Patch stories from around Georgia.

– Stone Mountain-Redan Patch

After a second attempted child abduction in less than two weeks, DeKalb County police are telling residents along the North Hairston Road corridor in unincorporated Stone Mountain to stay vigilant.

Sunday's alleged incident occurred at the Stonebridge Complex, according to a release from DeKalb police public information officer Mekka Parish.

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Police say a nine-year-old victim was walking to her apartment at the complex when the suspect confronted her in the breezeway. 

Police say the suspect dragged the victim to a nearby wooded area. The girl escaped unharmed by screaming and kicking, police say.

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The first incident occurred on February 21 at about 7:30 a.m. Police say the female victim, 11, was walking to school from the Stonebridge apartments with friends when they saw the suspect following them. Police say the suspect later grabbed the victim and tried to cover her mouth; after the victim and her friends screamed and fought him off, the suspect fled the scene.

 

– Cartersville Patch

A man who sustained a head injury at the hands of a friend with the shovel told police he didn't want to bring criminal charges.

 deputies were called to a Bishop Drive about 8 p.m. Sunday home as the 46-year-old victim headed to  for treatment. At the hospital, the injured man told deputies the he and a friend exchanged "a few words" in an argument, then his friend hit him in the back of the head with the shovel.

Citing their friendship and level of intoxication during what deputies called an aggravated assault, the victim declined to press charges. 

 

– Oconee Patch

No one was injured when a workshop located at 1280 Parker Creek Road caught fire shortly after 7:30 p.m. Monday.

According to , by the time the first rescue truck arrived on the scene, the workshop was fully engulfed and there were "multiple small propane tank explosions."

Thirty-three firefighters and first responders were called to the scene with three engines, five tankers, three rescue trucks, a command vehicle, National EMS, and members of the Georgia Forestry Commission.


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