Pin-Ups Owner Shot and Killed
Decatur Metro | September 7, 2010 | 3:09 pmUPDATE: The AJC reports that the owner of Pin-Ups Terry Stephenson was killed.
Oakhurst Mom writes in…
Any info on what’s going down at Pin-Ups on Ponce? Was just coming home from the Farmer’s Mkt & there were a ton of police, police vans & the entire parking lot was roped off with crime scene tape.
Yep. The AJC tweeted moments ago…
Shooting, possible fatal, at Pinups east of Decatur. Story soon.
And the paper just put up this post saying that details are still sketchy.
Stay tuned.
WSB says employee killed: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/24911571/detail.html
Lots of activity there lately. The past two Sundays on my way to YDFM I’ve seen cops in the parking lot talking to/arresting/questioning people.
AJC says it was the owner:
http://www.ajc.com/news/dekalb/owner-of-dekalb-strip-608337.html
Reread the article. It was an employee that was shot.
Shot 6 times per a supposed employee on Twitter.
The bike path to Stone Mountain goes by here, right?
It does
That was scary. I was on the way to take my car to the shop and had several officers fly past me, converge on the place. The fire truck and other officers were already there taking someone out on a stetcher. Car repair people said they had heard the gunshots, but weren’t surprised to hear gunshot coming out of there. We went across to Dek Ind’l and the “long” way home.
Makes one wonder what Decatur would do if it ever annexed that stretch. It’s never allowed liquor stores nor strip joints. Just bars and pool halls.
bike path does go by..
it;s on the wide sidewalk on south side of ponce
what does that have to do with anything?
i noticed about 3 weeks ago a guard at YDFM with a loaded, visible double barreled shotgun, at the front of the parking lot
wle
how do you know it was loaded?
cause cyclists can’t out-pedal a bullet. maybe that’s why.
I saw the same guy, but wasn’t so sure he was a security guard. I thought about alerting the management about him because I’d never seen anything like that before at YDFM.
Shotgun armed guards at YDFM have been there for a long time, more than a year, after 6pm. Ya’ll don’t go there at night much?
Bet you didn’t try to sneak a reusable bag in there, huh?
It’s important to know about the bike path so that innocent CoDers don’t get led astray into the duplicitous, bike-path laden, bullety arms of unincorporated DeKalb.
was at pin ups 3nights in a roll this past weekend, im counting myself a lucky person right now, J.A.B, we were lucky man.
I wonder how the county will shut this place down if the victim was the sole owner of the business. No new adult entertainment clubs are allowed to open or change ownership in Dekalb County.
Oops, I meant to say wonder IF, not wonder how.
AJC says the victim’s late father was a co-owner along with someone else.
Might’ve been a good idea for me to have read the article.
Jeff, do you have a code citation for that? I was curious about the same thing but can’t find it in the county code.
I’ll see if I can track it down. I remember there was a lot of discussion of this on the now defunct GoDekalb forum when the owner of Strokers was running for a seat on the county comission a couple years ago.
Hopefully I’ll have time to dig through this link today and find the exact language prohibiting change of ownership and/or the moratorium on new adult entertainment licenses.
http://library.municode.com/index.aspx?clientId=10637&stateId=10&stateName=Georgia
Is this the same information you looked at?
Dang, that’s not a direct link…see Chapet 15, Article XII at that link.
I know the family personally. Just pray for his Wife and two young kids under the age of 10.
You all need to pray for his family instead of talking bout stuff u don’t know I know them. And u should worrie bout his family and friends and how they feel
Agreed Coach…seems all too familiar…
Thank You Terry…R.I.P.