‘My emotions got the best of me,’ he says By D. AILEEN DODD Bishop Thomas W. Weeks pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated assault in the summertime attack on his estranged wife, national evangelist Juanita Bynum. In Fulton County Superior Court before judge T. Jackson Bedford, Weeks admitted that he grabbed Bynum, threw her down and […]
Bishop’s criminal trial to start today By D. AILEEN DODD National evangelist Juanita Bynum on Monday finally met with her estranged husband, Bishop Thomas W. Weeks III, and his attorney for a deposition in preparation for divorce proceedings. The meeting began at 9 a.m. in the law office of Randy Kessler, attorney for Weeks, and […]
By ERRIN HAINES ATLANTA — The husband of televangelist Juanita Bynum pleaded guilty Tuesday to assaulting her, was sentenced to three years’ probation and then turned to her and apologized. Thomas W. Weeks III, a minister known to his followers as Bishop Weeks, turned after his sentencing to address Bynum, who sat in the second […]
National evangelist Juanita Bynum on Monday finally met with her estranged husband, Bishop Thomas W. Weeks III, and his attorney for a deposition in preparation for divorce proceedings. The meeting, which began at 9 a.m. in the law office of Randy Kessler, attorney for Weeks, lasted for more than six hours. Bynum came to the […]
By ERRIN HAINES ATLANTA – The husband of televangelist Juanita Bynum pleaded guilty Tuesday to assaulting her, was sentenced to three years’ probation and then turned to her and apologized. Thomas W. Weeks III, a minister known to his followers as Bishop Weeks, turned after his sentencing to address Bynum, who sat in the second […]
Four-year-old Jelani, her mother and sister laid to rest in South Carolina on Saturday By Jayson Rodriguez Juvenile’s 4-year-old daughter, Jelani Deleston, her mother and her older sister were laid to rest in James Island, South Carolina, on Saturday, just over a week after the three were brutally murdered in their Georgia home. According to […]
By Andria Simmons A memorial of flowers and stuffed animals rested against the mailbox of the Lawrenceville home where a Gwinnett deputy and her two young children were slain. The two-story house on Madison Chase Drive sat empty Saturday since the sole surviving resident, 17-year-old Anthony Tyrone Terrell, was locked in the DeKalb County jail. […]
By Andria Simmons and George Chidi Rap star Juvenile was the father of one of three Lawrenceville residents murdered Thursday night at their home, according to court records. Jelani Deleston, 4, who police say was gunned down with her mother and sister, was the daughter of the 32-year-old rapper, according to child-support records in Gwinnett […]
By JONATHAN LANDRUM The rap star Juvenile is “shocked and devastated” by the shooting death of his young daughter, the girl’s mother and another child, his manager said Saturday. The 32-year-old rapper is still trying to cope with the death of 4-year-old Jelani; her mother, 39-year-old Joy Deleston; and the woman’s daughter Micaiah, 11, whose […]
By Jayson Rodriguez The daughter of rapper Juvenile, along with her mother and sister, were murdered Thursday in Georgia, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The mother, Joy Deleston, a sheriff’s deputy in Gwinnett County, was fatally shot, as were her two daughters, Micaiah, 11, and Jelani, 4. Jelani was the daughter of Juvenile, the paper […]
