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Braves hold off Dodgers to take 2-0 series lead in National League Championship Series, spokr,™ Trunk-or-treat festivities will look a little different this year, life, 6b Midweek Edition - OCTOBER 14-15,2020 | $1.00 | GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA| gainesvilletimes.com Honestly Local Man charged with killing uncle Police say accused fatally shot victim while arguing in Clermont home BY NICK WATSON nwatson@gainesvilletimes.com A Gainesville man is behind bars after fatally shooting another man Sunday, Oct. 11, at a Clermont home, according to authorities. Christopher Myers, 44, was charged with felony murder and aggravated assault following the death of Tim Walden, 60. Hall County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Derreck Booth said Tuesday that deputies responded around 7:10 p.m. Sunday to a 911 call about a domestic dispute in the 6100 block of Hulsey Road. Myers and Walden were arguing, and Myers alleg edly shot Walden during the argument, Booth said. Booth said Myers is Walden’s nephew. He did not disclose how many shots were fired. Hall County Fire Ser vices transported Walden to Northeast Georgia Medi cal Center in Gainesville, where he was declared dead. Myers was arrested at the scene, and he was booked in to the Hall County Jail. The case is still under investigation. The Sheriff’s Office made the public aware of the incident in a news release sent Tuesday, Oct. 13. Booth said the public information officers first learned of the inci dents from the previous patrol shift because the notification system was down. “Because we are unable to access case information via computer, we had to get the information directly from responding investigators, who were at home trying to get a little rest before coming back in,” Booth Myers wrote in an email. Booth said the public information officers were still waiting on signed warrants to come through before sending out the release. The Times has been unable to access Hall County Sheriff’s Office reports since the ransomware attack last week, and the newspa per no longer has access to a police radio. News agencies in the past have been allowed to own these radios, but recent changes in the law through the Georgia Crime Informa tion Center have prohibited access. ‘Just too much rain’ THOMAS HARTWELL I The Times Eulalia Alonzo, 38, stands with three of her children in front of her home in the Suburban Mobile Home Park neighborhood on Oct. 13. Days earlier, heavy rains from Hurricane Delta flooded the street she lives on. Her children, from left, are Maneor Alonzo, 6; Lupita Alonzo, 4; and Maria Noemi Alonzo, 7. Roughly 30 Hall homes damaged by weekend storms BY NICK WATSON nwatson@gainesvilletimes.com As county agencies continue to survey the damage from weekend storms, resi dents in areas hit hard by the heavy rains told their stories Tuesday, Oct. 13, of the flooding that surrounded their homes. Hall County Emergency Management Agency Director Casey Ramsey said roughly 30 homes in Hall County were damaged in the weekend storms, with most of those occurring in the McConnell Drive area of Gainesville. Vanesa Sarazua, executive director of Hispanic Alliance-GA, said she has heard from the community about mobile home parks in three areas dealing with damage. The three locations were on Inside ■ City estimates 2 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into Flat Creek, 4A ■ Weekend rains fill Lake Lanier with runoff and debris, 4A ■ County crews work to reopen roads impacted by flood damage, 4A Highland Terrace, McConnell Drive and Cander Road. “There’s about 80 families affected from those trailer parks, and we concen trate mostly on those because those are the ones that are most vulnerable and impoverished already,” Sarazua said, as the group has donated food to families affected by the flooding. Ramsey said the Highland Terrace and McConnell Drive areas have had a few high-water events in the past few years. “Just through ongoing maintenance of that stormwater area, it typically does fairly well,” Ramsey said. “But in this situation, there was just too much rain in the course of a small period of time to adequately handle that.” Tony Bradley said a friend’s son came knocking on doors around 1 a.m. Sun day to warn people about flooding in the mobile home park on Highland Terrace. Jaylen, Bradley’s 6-year-old son, said they saw the water covering the grass and their bikes outside. The family waited for roughly five hours for the water to recede, which at times was waist high. ■ Please see FLOODING, 5A Woman dead after fall from mountaintop BY NATHAN BERG nberg@gainesvilletimes.com A female hiker has died after falling from the top of Yonah Mountain Tuesday morning, according to White County director of public safety David Murphy. Murphy said authorities received a call that a woman had fallen from the mountain around 10:30 Tuesday morning, and it was determined she died on the scene. White County Fire EMS then began an “extensive” recovery process that involved rescuers rappelling down to where the body was located and lifting it using a rope pulley system, according to Murphy. He added that while White County Public Safety does not have any information about who the woman was, he is expecting the White County coroner’s office to release those details later this afternoon once immediate relatives have been notified. Rep. Collins reflects on his political career BY JEFF GILL jglll@gainesvilletlmes.com Many Americans first watched U.S. Rep. Doug Collins, R-Gainesville, during President Trump’s impeachment hearings in December. But he was a familiar face in Hall County long before that key moment in modern political times, having served in Congress since 2013, and before that, a state lawmaker, lawyer and 11-year pastor of Chicopee Baptist Church. Time “has gone by quickly,” Collins, 54, said in an interview with The Times last week, of his time in Congress. “It’s been good.” ■ Please see COLLINS, 5A Inside First days of early voting in Hall are busy, 5A Collins DEATHS 6A Bobbie Anderson, 85 Ransom Ash Sr., 72 Betty Boggs, 91 Samuel Bright, Jr., 83 Maryln Brown, 81 Annie Burgess, 93 Stephen Burke, 64 Angela Burton, 67 Toxie Bynum, 76 Pedro Castro, 56 J.D. Farmer, 90 Juanita Hardigree, 90 William Huffman, Sr., 78 Robert Kilgore, 82 Frances Johnson, 74 Erasmo Mandujano- Garcia, 77 Regina McNeal, 84 Terry Moore, 63 Margie Nichols, 85 Maura Ochsen, 68 Leon Osterland, 82 Kevin Paige, 19 Jayantibhal Patel, 82 Shelby Patterson, 76 Anthony Piccarreta, 90 Buddy Roebuck, 75 Edwin Saye, 75 Benny Slaton, 75 Larry Speed, 38 Marion Stone, Jr., 65 Ann Tallent, 84 Mac Turner, 78 Clifford Young Jr., 69 Christine Welch, 55 A.J. Worley, 32 40901 06835 8 We will make it through this, and the strength of hope will shine brightly. EH NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL — —m ■ir— Sii~ 8
