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Argument Over Bible, Forgiveness Leads to Man Being Shot Twice in Head, Say Police
DUBLIN, GEOR- GIA - A 20-year-old college student is dead and his friend is charged with murder in his death that reportedly started with an argument about the Bible.
Jacquell Smith was shot twice in the head Sunday at a home on Azalea Drive in Dublin. Charged in the shooting
is Raekwon Pauldo , 21.
“Apparently two friends got into an argument," Dublin police Chief Tim Chatman said Monday. "These are friends. They've been knowing each other for a long time. They were
arguing over stuff that didn't make any sense. As a result of that argu- ment, one of the gentlemen just shot him - shot him in the head twice."
When asked what the argument was about, Chatman sa id, "... at one point in time they were arguing over the Bible, about for- giveness," the chief said, "and then that turned to something else."
Chatman said Smith was taken to Fairview Park Hospital where he was pronounced dead. He says investigators quick- ly identified and arrested Pauldo as the suspect.
"He was a college student trying to get an education," a frustrated Chatman said about Smith. "He was in a house ... they all knew one another ... in fact there were some parents there ... and it went from zero to one hun- dred in a matter of seconds over noth- ing."
"You have a young man who's trying to get a college education, lost his life by the hands of a friend and it doesn't make sense, these senseless acts of violence we're see- ing all over our country that we're killing one another like flies," Chatman said.
Woman Becomes A Princess
After Marrying Ethiopian
Prince She Met in Nightclub
Tom Embury- Dennis
Fairytales are not known for begin- ning in a Washington DC nightclub, but for one American woman it was where she met the Ethiopian prince who would go on to become her husband.
Ariana Austin, now 33, was on a night out with a friend when they were approached by Joel Makonnen in the Pearl nightclub. “I said: ‘You guys look like an ad for Bombay Sapphire',” he told The New York Times about their first encounter.
“Not even five min- utes later I said: 'You're going to be
my girlfriend'.”
What he didn't reveal that night 12-years ago, was that plain old Joel was actually Prince Joel, the great- grandson of Haile Selassie I, Ethiopia's last emperor.
But after the cou- ple started dating seriously, Mr Makonnen, who works as a lawyer, eventually revealed his royal heritage. Born in Rome, his parents Prince David Makonnen and Princess Adey Imru Makonnen, had been forced to live in exile after a communist coup in his homeland.
His father had escaped the blood- shed in his home- land because he
was studying abroad at the time. The family subse- quently settled in Switzerland.
Mr Makonnen is related to Haile Selassie I through the emperor’s sec- ond son Prince Makonnen.
Haile Selassie was the 225th and last in the line of King of the Kings of Ethiopia, ruling the east African coun- try for 40 years until he was over- thrown in 1974.
He died the follow- ing year of “circula- tory failure” – though many believe he had been murdered days earlier.
Art's curator, Ms Austin told the newspaper it is an “unbeatable her- itage and history” that “combines sheer black power and ancient Christian tradition”. The royal family traces its roots back to the Biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
The pair married in a lavish Ethiopian Orthodox Christian wedding with 13 priests, two crowns and a pair of capes on September 9.
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