Rabid Coyote Attack; Pedestrian Killed on Interstate; Execution Planned Thursday: News Nearby

Patch has community sites across Georgia. Here are some of the top posts from the past 24 hours.

• Search Under Way For South Forsyth Carjacker
• Rabid Coyote Caught in Roswell
• Person Struck, Killed on Northside Perimeter

'White Boy Privilege' From Atlanta Student Goes Viral

A poem by an Atlanta student that was part of a school contest has gone viral.

"White Boy Privilege" was written and delivered by Royce Mann, 14, an eighth grade student at the Paideia School in Atlanta's Druid Hills community near Decatur.
In the wake of recent protests over police shootings and race relations in the United States, the video has gone viral and been seen nearly 300,000 times on YouTube. >>> Read more.

Georgia to Execute John Wayne Conner Thursday

A Georgia death row inmate is set to become the sixth person put to death by the state this year.
John Wayne Conner, 60, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.
The execution would set a new record for Georgia. The state has never executed more than five people in a year in the 40 years since the death penalty was reinstated. >>> Read more.

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