Friday, June 11, 2004

Suspects in Clayton gun assault arrested here By JOHN MUNFORD jmunford@TheCitizenNews.com Fayette County sheriff’s deputies diffused an altercation Wednesday afternoon between a woman’s boyfriend and her parents that began in Clayton County, police said. Deputies were summoned to the intersection of Ga. highways 85 and 314 in Fayetteville at 1 p.m. after the parents had blocked in a vehicle containing the 21-year-old woman, her boyfriend and another man, according to the Clayton County Police Department. An eyewitness said several vehicles involved in the incident sped through the BP gas station near the intersection, but there was no pursuit by either Clayton or Fayette officers, said Det. Hank Derbyshire of the Clayton County Police Department. The woman, Karma Rashaun Cale, 21, willingly left a residence on Canvasback Court in Jonesboro with the two men after one of them pulled a gun on her father during the altercation, police said. The woman’s parents, fearing for her safety, then followed the car into Fayetteville, police said. The boyfriend, identified as Mardae Weaver, 22, of Nashville, Tenn., was arrested for making terroristic threats, police said. The other man in the vehicle, Vance Bradshaw, 24, also of Nashville, was arrested for aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, police said. The incident began at a residence on Canvasback Court in Jonesboro where the daughter and her parents had been staying with another family, police said. The daughter had called Weaver before the altercation, asking him to come and get her, police said.

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