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DUN 2 | Community Facebook.com/TheReporterNewspapers ■ twitter.com/Reporter_News Defendant accused of killing local bicyclist in hit-and-run heads to grand jury PAUL BECK The “ghost bike” memorial for Mayer on Glenridge Drive in Sandy Springs. This exhibition is co-organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Portland Museum of Art, Maine. MAJOR FUNDING PROVIDED BY BANK OF AMERICA I endowment*MII» | A DELTA | northside | Mll vu I HOSPITAL UJI5V1. I Brenda and Larry j 1 Thompson 1 I 1 BENEFACTOR EXHIBITION SERIES SUPPORTERS Anne Cox Chambers Foundation, Robin and Hilton Howell AMBASSADOR EXHIBITION SERIES SUPPORTERS The Antinori Foundation, Corporate Environments, Louise Sams and Jerome Grilhot CONTRIBUTING EXHIBITION SERIES SUPPORTERS Farideh and Al Azadi, Sandra and Dan Baldwin, Lucinda W. Bunnen, Marcia and John Donnell, Mrs. Fay S. Howell/The Howell Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Baxter Jones, The Arthur R. and Ruth D. Lautz Charitable Foundation, Joel Knox and Joan Marmo, Margot and Danny McCaul, The Ron and Lisa Brill Family Charitable Trust, and The Fred and Rita Richman Fund GENEROUS SUPPORT IS ALSO PROVIDED BY Alfred and Adele Davis Exhibition Endowment Fund, Anne Cox Chambers Exhibition Fund, Barbara Stewart Exhibition Fund, Dorothy Smith Hopkins Exhibition Endowment Fund, Eleanor McDonald Storza Exhibition Endowment Fund, The Fay and Barrett Howell Exhibition Fund, Forward Arts Foundation Exhibition Endowment Fund, Helen S. Lanier Endowment Fund, Isobel Anne Fraser-Nancy Fraser Parker Exhibition Endowment Fund, John H. and Wilhelmina D. Harland Exhibition Endowment Fund, Katherine Murphy Riley Special Exhibition Endowment Fund, Margaretta Taylor Exhibition Fund, and the RJR Nabisco Exhibition Endowment Fund David Driskell (American, 1931-2020), Homage to Romare, 1976, collage and gouache on Masonite, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment, 2017.3. Photograph by Travis Fullerton. © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. © Estate of David C. Driskell and courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York. HIGH MUSEUM OF ART FEB. 6-MAY 9 HIGH.ORG PREMIER EXHIBITION SERIES SUPPORTERS Sarah and Jim Kennedy NATIONAL l«nTC endowment: Hn10 BANK OF AMERICA' 3 ^ ADELTA BY BOB PEPALIS The case of a defendant accused of killing a Dunwoody bicyclist in a San dy Springs hit-and-run collision last year is heading to a grand jury after a Fulton County magistrate ruled Jan. 22 there is probable cause. Felix Mayer was killed April 24 on Glenridge Drive just north of 1-285 by a driver who fled the scene. Mayer was lat er honored with a “ghost bike” memorial on that street. Leonardo Angulo Banos of Norcross was arrested last year by Sandy Springs Police officers and accused of hitting Mayer while talking on his cellphone. The charges Banos faces include two counts of homicide by vehicle in the first degree; hit-and-run resulting in serious injury or death; reckless driving; improper lane change; speeding; and distracted driving while operating a wireless device. Judge Debbie-Ann Rickman ruled that Banos’s case can go to a grand jury, which will decide if enough evidence exists to indict him and allow him to be prosecuted. Sandy Springs Police Officer Charles Needham testified at the preliminary hear ing and described some of the evidence. He said police identified Banos’s pickup truck in traffic camera videos as the vehicle involved in the crash. Needham said that he found damage to the truck that included “the imprint of the bicycle on the overhanging toolbox.” SPECIAL Felix Mayer.
