Atlanta Strip Clubs: Man jailed for strip club shooting sues DeKalb

Posted on November 10th, 2011 in Atlanta strip clubs

Man jailed for strip club shooting sues DeKalb
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Joey Celestin wasn’t even at the wrong place at the wrong time when he was arrested, along with a co-worker, in Sept. 2010 and charged with fatally shooting a Decatur strip club owner.
Now, more than one year after spending three weeks in jail for a crime he couldn’t have committed, Celestin, 29, is suing the county for negligence, malicious arrest and false imprisonment. His civil suit, filed last week in DeKalb County State Court, names the county as a defendant along with veteran DeKalb police Detective R.S. Davis, who is alleged to have “concealed from the court material information that would have eliminated [Celestin] and [Bill] Nichols as suspects.”
At the exact moment Terry Stephenson was shot outside Pin Ups on East Ponce de Leon Avenue, Celestin and Nichols were one mile away at Atlanta Kitchen, where both men worked at the time. The proof was irrefutable, as employers of the food service equipment company had to sign in using a biometric time clock that required a hand print.

See the full article from “Atlanta Journal Constitution”



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