On April 9, 2016, police responding to a 911 call found the lifeless body of Atlanta civic leader Barney Simms in his front yard. He appeared to have been shot twice in the back.
The fact that the esteemed 70-year-old former housing executive had been gunned down in broad daylight left the city reeling. “You would never imagine a violent situation to occur in his life,” former U.S. Congressman Kwanza Hall said.
“That’d be the last way you think he’d go,” Hall added in the “Killer in the Community” episode of The Real Murders of Atlanta, airing Saturdays at 9/8c p.m. on Oxygen.
Who was Barney Simms?
Simms was well-known in the Georgia capital as a civil rights activist and the retired senior vice president of the Atlanta Housing Authority…