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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday June 24 2017, @02:46PM   Printer-friendly

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that Albert DeMagnus, the 74-year old founder and CEO of Computer Management Services, Inc. was stabbed to death during a home invasion.

When Deputies responded to the home at approximately 2:30 a.m., they found DeMangus with a stab wound. He was taken to Piedmont Fayette Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The homeowner’s wife told authorities three men demanded cash and jewelry before taking the victim’s gray Lexus and leaving the scene. That’s when she called 911.

Deputies spotted the Lexus near the scene of the home invasion, Babb said. The stolen car crashed in the area of Jimmie Mayfield Boulevard and Bradley Drive and two men ran, he said. Deputies and Fayetteville police officers found located both men.

Jeffrey Lee Wallace, 22, of Atlanta, and Kavion Wyzeenski Tookes, 21, of Decatur, were both arrested and being held Friday night at the Fayette County jail.

One suspect remains at large.

DeMagnus' firm, Computer Management Services, Inc. (CMS) is an Information Technology (IT) augmentation firm that provides IT services to Fortune 500 Companies, the Federal Government, and State and Local Agencies.

ARTICLE: http://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/year-old-ceo-stabbed-death-during-home-invasion/LYI93lCxKasTsT1cncg3zL/


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  • (Score: 2) by KGIII on Sunday June 25 2017, @02:47AM (6 children)

    by KGIII (5261) on Sunday June 25 2017, @02:47AM (#530763) Journal

    We are insane and idiotic.

    We get mad if a State does something like put up cameras to watch for uninsured cars. At the same time, we fucking hate criminals. Except, we're all kinda criminals - we all break the law, on a regular basis. Well, probably not all - but I bet the vast, vast majority do.

    Why? My guess is it's a sense of entitlement mixed with a whole lot of differing cultural values that makes us have issues identifying with one another, except in times of strife - and maybe not even then.

    The US is fairly unique in its makeup and liberties.

    I guess, when you throw a ball - it takes the path it takes because it has no other choice. It's just physics.

    In this case, when you smash a bunch of disparate groups together, give them a variety of liberties, and then mix them up in individual fiefdoms that are known as States, you get this.

    If I knew how to describe it better, I'd probably have a solution. I don't know, we've batshit insane. We are a collective bunch of morons, armed to the teeth, independent(ish), petty, aggressive, and insane.

    We've kinda been like this since day one, actually. This is not exactly something new.

    Here.... The Marines are older than our country. Nov. 10, 1775, we formed in Tun's Tavern, PA. Now, eventually some pirates in the Middle East took some of our countrymen hostage. They sent these Marines over there to kick there ass - which they did. Then, because it was such a success, we had a president (against the law - and using stolen budget monies) go back over there and kick their ass a second time. Now, they hadn't done anything new - we'd already recovered the hostages and kicked their ass. But, we went back and did it again.

    This was pretty much our first action as a nation state, after the Revolutionary War.

    We have never been sane. We have never been civil. We have never been all that bright. We have, on the other hand, had a whole lot of drive and motivation.

    Take that, mix in rich and poor, mix in all the faiths, mix in all the colors, and then throw in drugs, alcohol, and firearms. You should probably throw in fast cars, loose women, and dynamite - we kinda like to party.

    And that's how you get America. It's broken. It's not right. It is what it is.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday June 25 2017, @03:31AM (5 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 25 2017, @03:31AM (#530772) Journal

    We are insane and idiotic.

    Thanks. At least that's something that should cut my appetite to understand you (all): in a chaotic system, explanations aren't possible (if there's a pattern at all, only statistics may help).

    We have, on the other hand, had a whole lot of drive and motivation.

    Pedantic, I know, but... motivation implies purpose and drive implies destination.
    Perhaps "frenzy and amok" fit better your description.

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    • (Score: 2) by KGIII on Sunday June 25 2017, @03:42AM (4 children)

      by KGIII (5261) on Sunday June 25 2017, @03:42AM (#530774) Journal

      Oh, no... We have a purpose and drive. We have it in spades. However, we are all running in different directions. It's like a mad house full of meth addicts. Mix the movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest with the movie Spun, throw in some Drug Store Cowboy and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - and that's the more sane half. Like 30% of us are on some sort of mental health related prescription. We do more drugs, legal and illegal, than the rest of the world - in some case, more than the rest of the world combined.

      Yeah... And we drink quite a bit, but we don't hold that record. Also, we have guns and income disparity. We have glorified gang culture. We have crazy religious bastards. We have fucking televangelists that are insanely wealthy. We have Trump as our president. Also, we have a huge fucking military. We are kinda idiots and certainly not rational.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @11:34PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @11:34PM (#530991)

        You don't speak for anyone in the US but yourself.

        And you don't do a very good job of doing that.

        I KNEW you were stoned when I read the bullshit you wrote earlier.

        If you think the US is such a fucked up place, get the fuck out, we don't need you. I expect your ex-wife could tell us a lot of stories about your intoxicated ravings and your propensity to behave violently when you think you can get away wth it. No wonder she left you.

        • (Score: 2) by KGIII on Sunday June 25 2017, @11:40PM (2 children)

          by KGIII (5261) on Sunday June 25 2017, @11:40PM (#530995) Journal

          Nice try. Unlike you, I can leave. Unlike you, I am welcomed elsewhere.

          Your silly biases are also wrong. I am never violent with her and it was I who filed for divorce. Sheesh. Do you get all your views from tabloids?

          I would also like to remind the viewing audience that, unlike you, I actually served this country. You're welcome.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @05:40AM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @05:40AM (#531773)

            "Nice try. Unlike you, I can leave. Unlike you, I am welcomed elsewhere."

            You don't know a damned thing about me, you stupid sack of shit.

            But I know something about you. I know you have something wrong with you that makes you think it is ok to insult your fellow Americans, when you don't
            even know 99.9% of the American public, so you cannot speak with authority about what Americans are or are not.

            You're just a miserable malcontent dope smoker living in the woods, and you're bitter because you're alone. The truth hurts, doesn't it, asshole.

            • (Score: 2) by KGIII on Tuesday June 27 2017, @04:33PM

              by KGIII (5261) on Tuesday June 27 2017, @04:33PM (#532002) Journal

              You poor, poor AC. I feel sorry for you. Is there something I can do to make you feel better about yourself?

              I'll try - you can take from this what you want.

              I have a lovely girlfriend, a wonderful group of friends, and a large variety of activities that keep me engaged and happy.

              And yes, of course I can insult my fellow citizens. It's absolutely acceptable to do so - in fact, I have a right to do so. You appear to be in the 70% that I quoted. You are rapidly working your way to the 30% that I quoted. Those are unfortunate places to be but, more often than not, people put themselves into those categories. I don't know why you do so - it's not hard to be reasonably intelligent and to be willing to discuss things in a reasonable tone.

              And, unlike you, I've traveled - extensively. I've been in your State - multiple times. There's a very, very small chance that I've never been in your State (there's only one that I've not been to and you don't live there). The rest, I've been to more than once - and spent some time there, in the vast majority of them. I may even know your State better than you do.

              So, yes... Yes, I know Americans. They're lovely people, they're just not that bright and not that sane. Some are a combination of both.

              But, if there's something reasonable that I can do to help you be happy with yourself, you let me know. Okay?

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              "So long and thanks for all the fish."