Regional Roundup: Double Shooting Suspect Dies, Teens Accept Plea Deal in Vandalism Case, and UGA Plans Forum on Trayvon Martin Incident

-- Barrow Patch

The suspect in a double shooting that occurred Monday has died after having turned a gun on himself. 

The reports Auburn Police Chief Paul Nadeau confirmed Tuesday that 29-year-old Shuaib Omar died at Gwinnett Medical Center.

Omar reportedly shot himself following a 90-minute standoff with police in Suwanee. 

Prior to the standoff, Omar is believed to have shot two women in an apparent domestic dispute at an Auburn apartment complex off Parks Mill Road. 

One of the female victims, identified as Monica Ann Long, 32, is still alive and in stable condition, the Barrow Journal reports. The deceased female, reportedly Omar's girlfriend, was identified as 34-year-old Betty Marie Maddox.

– Dallas-Hiram Patch

Paulding County District Attorney Dick Donovan said 21 of the  last month in connection with  accepted his offer to send their cases to pre-trial diversion.

The pre-trial diversion program will have participants each performing 400 hours of community services at places approved by the pre-trial diversion supervisors, Supervision Services Inc.; each participant will have to pay the company $420 to cover 12 months of pre-trial diversion expenses.

Participants also will have to pay a $300 administration fee to the county, as well as restitution to the Paulding County School System. Under the latter requirement, those taking part in the program will be jointly liable for paying the school district’s clean-up costs, which .

-- Athens Patch

A panel of professors from the University of Georgia will lead a community conversation about the Trayvon Martin case and its implications.

Scheduled for this Friday, at 2;30pm, in Room 248 of the Miller Learning Center, the event includes various department’s and offices from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

According to psychology professor Dr. Kecia Thomas, who works in the Franklin College Office of Inclusion and Diversity Leadership, the genesis for the forum came from geography professor Hilda Kurtz. She came to Thomas, wanting to have a discussion about the case, in which an unarmed, 17-year-old black young man was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch person.