Baby Dies In Hot Car, Mom Charged | Patch PM

A DeKalb County mother is in jail after her 1-year-old baby died in a hot car and another woman faces charges after leaving her dog in a hot SUV outside a Wal-Mart. Two men were injured after falling from a roof, two people were in the hospital after being shot in Gwinnett County and police say masked men shot and killed a Marietta man at an apartment complex. Here are the top local news stories worth reading and talking about on Thursday, July 10, as pulled from our Georgia Patch sites.

Mom Being Held In Hot Car Death In DeKalb

A DeKalb County mother is facing criminal charges after she allegedly left her 1-year-old girl in a hot car last month outside a hair salon. Twenty-five-year-old Dijanelle Fowler is charged with child neglect and second-degree murder in the mid-June death of her daughter, Skylar Fowler. DeKalb investigators said that Fowler left Skylar in her Hyundai Sonata with the air conditioning on when the mother went to get her hair done at a salon on Lavista Road.

Woman Left Dog In Hot SUV Outside Walmart In Cobb: Police

An Acworth mother was arrested after allegedly leaving a dog in a hot SUV outside a store earlier this month, Patch has learned. Although another adult and a number of children were with her, Cameta Hibbert was booked into the Cobb Detention Center, according to news reports. In the July 11 incident, Coco the Chihuahua's yelping and panting outside the Walmart on Cobb Parkway was seen by a passerby, who waited 20 minutes before calling authorities, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Two People Wounded In Gwinnett Shooting

Two people were shot, one of them in the face, late Thursday morning near Snellville. Gwinnett County Police were on the scene Thursday afternoon of the double shooting on Highpoint Court, near Highpoint Road just southwest of Snellville city limits. Details of the shooting were still emerging Thursday afternoon as the investigation continued.

More Georgia headlines:

• Masked Gunmen Fatally Shoot Marietta Man At Cobb Apartments: Police
• New Brew Pub Coming To Gwinnett
• Ex-Employee Of Workforce DeKalb Charged In Bribery Scheme: Feds
• Package Thief Caught On Camera At Midtown Apartments
  
• Ice Cream Festival Set For Saturday At Piedmont Park
  
• Atlanta Restaurant With Collapsed Roof 'Closed Until Further Notice'
  
• Historic Isaac Adair House Open After Renovations
  
• Maintenance Begins On Macedonia African Methodist Church Cemetery

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