Wave of Violence Erupts After Morning Murder

Police continue to search for a man who they say stabbed another man to death this morning, possibly starting a wave a violence.

Police officials say there were several other violent incidents in the East Lake area after this morning's murder. One happened at Jocelyn Davenport's house on 17th street. She says several men threw a fire bomb into her house and now as she tries to pick up the pieces and move forward she says she hopes the violence stops now before anyone else is killed.

"They going to kill each other for nothing, only thing over gangs saying you got this and you got that, you ain't own nothing but your name and your mama gave you that," Jocelyn Davenport says.

And Jocelyn Davenport is clinging to her name after someone destroyed her home by throwing a fire bomb into her back window this morning. Similar violence erupted throughout the East Lake area after Police say Courrie Long, better known as "Coco", stabbed LaTony Johnson to death in the East Lake Courts.

"We do believe that it's probably gang related, two rival gangs and incidences have occurred since then," Sgt. Jerri Weary says.

Incidents that include two separate car fires in which witnesses say molotov cocktails were thrown. Police officers also say someone fired shots in the area, another incident involved possible shots into a home, and then someone threw the fire bomb into Davenport's home where she says her grandkids normally sleep.

"They innocent kids they aint done nothing to nobody, they can't even throw a rock and hit you so why is they getting threatened with their lives?" Davenport asks.

Davenport says Police officers questioned her son, Kenneth McCullough, who was involved in a shooting last summer.

"He just said he didn't know why and he didn't have nothing to do with the killing that happened in east lake and said that's where this is coming from and said he didn't have nothing to do with that," Davenport says.

The A-T-F joined both the Police and Fire Departments in their investigations into the fire bomb.

"Some of our best evidence is by the window, we had some glass embedded between the bricks there and we've picked that out and we're sending that to atlanta to have it tested for ignitable liquids," Captain James Whitmire says.

Captain James Whitmire says whoever bombed the house could be charged with a federal offense.

And now Police are trying to figure out what, if anything, the bombing had to do with this morning's murder.

"We're trying to find out who the residents are at these addresses, how they're related to either Mr. Johnson or Mr. Long, if it has anything to do with the stabbing," Sgt. Weary says.

Davenport works for a hotel downtown and says they have been nice enough to let her stay there tonight - but she says she's not sure what she'll do after tonight.