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Dick's Suspends Some Gun Sales; Snatch & Grab at Perimeter Mall

Some top Patch headlines from around the region.

 

Snatch and Grab at Perimeter Mall Turns Dangerous - Dunwoody Patch

Dunwoody Poloice reported a scary incident Monday at Perimeter Mall.

A woman was leaving the mall and was in the parking lot when a man snatched her bag from the Apple Store and started running away.

The woman chased the man - and then he pointed a gun at her and told her to stay back. The man jumped into a gray SUV and left the mall. For more on this story, visit Dunwoody Patch.

Cobb Motorist Dies in I-75 Crash - Northeast Cobb Patch

A Cobb motorist died in an accident that shut down southbound traffic on Interstate 75 south of Delk Road in Cobb for a time on Monday afternoon.

Cobb Police Spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce said that Fatma E. Shalaby, 24, of Acworth, was pronounced dead at the scene. For more on this story, visit Northeast Cobb Patch.

Dick's Sporting Goods Suspends Sale of Some Guns - Loganville-Grayson Patch

Dick's Sporting Goods, with Gwinnett-area locations in LoganvilleBuford and Peachtree Corners  has stopped selling some semi-automatic rifles to show respect for the victims in last week's school shooting in Connecticut, CNN reports.

It's not known when the stores will return to selling guns in the category of "modern sporting rifles," CNN says. For more on this story, visit Loganville-Grayson Patch.

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