Regional Roundup: Deer Runs Rampant Through Convenience Store, $60K Missing From Murder Victim and Police Chase Ends in Fiery Crash

-- Dacula Patch

An 11-year-old girl escaped serious injury after a deer went on a rampage inside a Dacula convenience store.

manager Amanda Easterling said the incident happened shortly after 4 p.m. on Sunday.

“We were just slammed busy and all of a sudden this deer just comes barreling through our door,” she said.

The deer shattered the glass and collided with an 11-year-old girl that was exiting the store with her brother.

Easterling and others got the girl behind the counter and called 911.

Once animal control arrived, the decision was made that the animal had to be euthanized. Officers cleared everyone out of the store and shot the deer.

The girl was transported to Gwinnett Medical Center for treatment of her injuries.

Easterling said the store was closed from roughly 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. while employees cleaned up the damage.

– East Atlanta Patch

A 48-year-old man who was shot inside his Old Fourth Ward convenience store Feb. 22 may have had as much as $60,000 from the sale of another property — cash that is now missing.

Suhrid K. Das, the man who was shot at the Banna Grocery by a gunman while closing for the evening, had sold one of his four businesses the same day, his brother, Sanjay, told sulekha.com, an Indian news and business web portal.

APD released a video last week of the gunman believed to have shot Das in the abdomen. Das later died of his wounds at Grady Memorial Hospital.

– Douglasville Patch

Kevin Montgomery, of Villa Rica, led a  deputy on a high-speed chase at approximately 1 a.m. that ended in a fiery crash in the woods off of Old National Highway, in Fulton County. The chase began when the deputy found Montgomery driving in the wrong lane on Highway 166, according to Deputy Chief Stan Copeland.

The deputy attempted to pull the car over for suspected DUI and Montgomery began to flee. After at least a seven or eight mile chase, Montgomery's vehicle left the road and went into the woods, catching fire.

Montgomery sustained only minor head injuries and was taken to the hospital for observation. Montgomery will be arrested as soon as he is released from the hospital, Copeland said.