The woman accused of shooting three people and sending offices into lockdown in downtown Atlanta on Monday was not granted bail. Raïssa Kengne, 34, appeared in court on Tuesday afternoon accused of attacking three people with a firearm and killing two of them, and was ordered to remain in custody. The first attack took place at Ms Kengne’s luxury apartment complex, with a second shooting incident minutes later at an office building four blocks away. Michael Shinners, 60, a building manager at Ms Kengne’s luxury apartment complex, died at the scene, while Wesley Freeman, 41, who appears to have been a former colleague of Ms Kengne, died later in hospital. While police are still investigating the motive for the shooting, Ms. Kengne appears to have made a series of LinkedIn posts and filed a lawsuit accusing Mr. Freeman and the administrators of her building of conspiring against her. Officers said they believed the victims had been specifically targeted.
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“Not enough data”
Raïssa Kengne’s lawsuit was problematic. According to her complaint, she attempted to hire a law firm but was turned down after “several months” and “many questions” because they “didn’t have enough evidence to pursue the case.” She searched Georgia for other attorneys, and even flew to Washington, DC to meet with others (her tickets are included in her lawsuit as evidence), to no avail. Instead, she represented herself and named her previous attorneys as defendants in the lawsuit. Io Dodds24 August 2022 05:17 1661310658
The suspect was reportedly fighting foreclosure
Atlanta radio station 11 Alive has taken a deep dive into Raïssa Kengne’s 407-page lawsuit, as well as other legal filings related to her life. Although a judge on Tuesday told Ms. Kengne she did not qualify for a taxpayer-funded lawyer, she reportedly told a different court that she has less than $3,000 in savings and no income. The report says Ms. Kengne owns land, an abandoned house and her apartment in downtown Atlanta, but that she is fighting to prevent foreclosure on the house and to get the electricity back on in the apartment. Io Dodds24 August 2022 04:10 1661306578
No court date has been set for Kengne’s next appearance
A court date has not yet been set for Raïssa Kengne’s next appearance before a judge, Fox 5 Atlanta reported Tuesday. The woman accused of killing two people and injuring one in a shooting spree in downtown Atlanta on Tuesday appeared briefly before a judge to hear the warrant against her and to be denied bail. Io Dodds24 August 2022 03:02 1661302558
“He will be greatly missed”
The accounting firm where shooting victim Wesley Freeman worked sent a bulletin to employees mourning his loss. According to a screenshot posted by an employee on the anonymous social network Fishbowl, the message – first spotted by accountancy news site Going Concern – was signed by BDO USA CEO Wayne Berson and head of HR Cathy Moy. “As you may have seen in the news, there has been an active shooter incident in downtown Atlanta involving our BDO office,” they said. “We are saddened to share that one of our employees, Wesley (Wes) Freeman, passed away yesterday as a result of this incident. “This is devastating and something we never imagined we would face as a company… Wes, an IS assurance managing director, has been an incredible team member who has brought exceptional passion, dedication and integrity to his work over the last 16 years at BDO. He will be greatly missed.” It adds that the Atlanta office will remain closed “until further notice.” The message made no mention of shooting suspect Raïssa Kengne, who appears to have previously worked for BDO and named Mr Freeman as a defendant in a wide-ranging trial in May. BDO has so far not responded to requests for comment from The Independent. Io Dodds24 August 2022 01:55 1661298480
Suspect’s LinkedIn page was flooded with comments
Raïssa Kengne’s LinkedIn page has been flooded with online rubberneckers speculating about her alleged role in the shooting and sometimes voicing her support. Under a video of Ms. Kengne about her dispute with her former employer and her building manager, posted two days ago, there are now 286 comments from seemingly strangers. Some people are taking her claims of a conspiracy against her seriously, suggesting dark forces behind the events in Atlanta and voicing support for her perspective. Others sided with her claims that Atlanta police did not pay due attention to her dissent while grieving the deaths. Still others argued that she was mentally ill, using words like “paranoid” and “delusional”, while many others simply discussed her arrest with surprise and surprise. To be clear, Ms. Kengne is innocent of Monday’s shooting until proven guilty, and we don’t know anything specific about her mental state. One hapless professional linker, who describes himself as a senior auditor at KPMG, posted about three weeks ago that “I knew from the first moment I met you that you were BAD. Go, Raisa!” Since then, many strangers have responded pointing out that he has been arrested. Io Dodds24 August 2022 00:48 1661294158
Suspect had a long career as an IT auditor
Now that authorities have confirmed that the suspect is Raïssa Kengne, let’s take a closer look at how she described herself on LinkedIn. By the looks of it, Mrs. Kengne had a successful career. He graduated in 2010 with a degree in accounting and finance from Georgia State University’s J Mack Robinson College of Business, where he says he was treasurer of the Delta Epsilon Iota fraternity, and then earned a master’s degree in information systems auditing from the same institution in 2013. Since then, he has worked for various companies as an IT auditor, assessing clients’ safeguards against cyber-attacks and system failure risks. She received endorsements on the social network for her skills in ‘auditing’, ‘financial analysis’, ‘financial reporting’ and more. A manager from one of her practices in 2011 described him as “a valuable asset to our accounting team … her performance was on par with our staff professionals.” According to a post three weeks ago, Ms. Kengne also gave a talk at a conference in Atlanta titled “Fraud in Public Accounting.” A screenshot of what appears to be Raïssa Kengne’s LinkedIn page (Raïssa Kengne via LinkedIn) Io Dodds23 August 2022 23:35 1661290993
IKYMI: Two victims killed in an attack have been identified
Michael Shiners, 60, and Wesley Freeman, 41, were identified by the Fulton County Coroner’s Office on Monday as the two victims killed in the shooting that afternoon, according to local news outlets. Shinners was one of two people shot in an apartment at 1280 West Peachtree Street, while Freeman was shot in a different building less than a mile away at 1100 Peachtree Street, Atlanta police said. The first shooting took place in the management office at the apartment building managed by Beacon Management Services, where the Shinners and the third victim, Mike Horne, were employees, according to CBS46. Here’s what we know about them:
Two victims killed in Atlanta ID shooting after female suspect arrested at airport
The suspect was arrested at the city’s international airport Gino Spocchia 23 August 2022 22:43 1661288518
“Please be quiet ma’am”
Here’s a video from Raïssa Kengne’s first court appearance, showing her exchange with the judge. Suspect in deadly downtown Atlanta shooting speaks after judge asks her to remain silent during hearing Io Dodds23 August 2022 22:01 1661286199
Raïssa Kengne appears in court
Raïssa Kengne was denied bail at her first court appearance in Atlanta. Sitting in front of a video screen in a government building, wearing a face mask, Ms Kengne listened as the warrant against her was read, accusing her of assaulting Michael Shinners, Wesley Freeman and Michael Horne with a firearm. Ms Kengne repeatedly tried to speak and intervene in the proceedings, but the judge told her to shut up. “Your honor, if I may interject,” he said at one point. “Please be quiet, madam,” replied the judge. Raïssa Kengne during her first court appearance on Tuesday, August 23, 2022 (WSB-TV 2) The judge then told Ms. Kengne that she had enough assets or income that she did not qualify for a taxpayer-funded defense attorney under Georgia law and that she must immediately hire her own attorney without “delay or delay .[ing]”. Ms Kengne tried to protest, saying she had not had a chance to speak to her current lawyer about the facts of the case,’ but was told this would be dealt with later. The judge ordered that he remain in custody. Io Dodds23 August 2022 21:23 1661283913
According to information, an appeal was filed by a suspect in a lawsuit
In a lawsuit alleging a conspiracy against her, Raïssa Kengne accused two of her victims and her former employer of “retaliation, harassment, harassment, intimidation, threats, burglary, computer hacking, phone theft and other assaults,” according to with a version we saw. from the Independent. The case, which a judge reportedly threw out, came after she allegedly highlighted a “significant deficiency” in an audit at her former accounting firm that was overlooked, WSB-TV reported. She then accused her apartment management company of allowing “unauthorized persons” into her apartment in connection with the claims and the lawsuit, and according to WSB-TV, she appealed the judge’s ruling just last week. Lisa Simmons, president of Beacon Management Services, told local media on Tuesday that Ms. Kengne was an “unhappy” resident. Gino Spocchia 23 August 2022 20:45
