Celebrity trainer receives beatdown in Apelanta

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Celebrity trainer receives beatdown in Apelanta

Celebrity Trainer Beaten In Atlanta
Police: Trainer Was Escorting Group Of Women When Attacked

ATLANTA -- A celebrity trainer was attacked while escorting a group of women outside of an Atlanta restaurant Wednesday night, police said.

Atlanta police said Darius Miller was walking with one of Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin's daughters and four other women outside of the D'Jangos restaurant when a group of men approached them and attempted to video tape the women.

When Miller asked the photographers from 01 Entertainment to leave the women alone, the men began punching Miller -- leaving him severely injured and comatose, police said.



Hospital officials said Miller is in critical condition and is being housed in the intensive care unit of the hospital.

Investigators said there have been no arrests made in connection with this attack.

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Personal trainer severely beaten by group downtown

Polite said Miller is a trainer for numerous celebrities, including Terrell Owens and Usher.

Police have made no arrests, Polite said. He did not know how many attackers were being sought but said Miller was "greatly outnumbered."

[Smilin' Jack]

An dis be Darius Sr.

Notice the resemblance?

[Johnny99]

http://www.11alive.com/news/article_...storyid=108818 Holmes Suspect Surrenders in Trainer Attack Miller

Web Editor: Michael King
Last Modified: 12/31/2007 12:25:30 PM
http://www.11alive.com/news/article_...storyid=108736
Police said that Apollo Holmes, 24, wanted in connection with last week's assault on fitness trainer Darius Miller, turned himself in Monday morning.

Atlanta police spokesman James Polite said
Holmes turned himself in at the Fulton County jail about 8 a.m. Monday. A warrant charges Holmes with aggravated assault in the attack on Miller.

Miller, 41, was beaten after trying to stop a group of men from videotaping a group that included Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin's daughters, Kai Franklin Graham and Kali Jamilla Franklin outside of the popular Atlanta nightclub Verve around 2:50 a.m. Wednesday, according to a police report.

Polite said Miller remained in critical condition Monday at Emory Crawford Long Hospital. The hospital declined to discuss Miller's condition.

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Man charged in celeb trainer’s beating kills self



"Ah jus' can't takez it no mo'....goodbye, cruel worl' an' sheeeiiitt..."

The only man charged in a severe beating of a celebrity fitness trainer outside of a Midtown nightclub more than a year ago committed suicide at his Mableton home on Christmas Day, said the man’s attorney, Bruce Harvey.

The man, Apollo Holmes, 25, was charged with criminal intent to commit murder, aggravated assault and aggravated battery in the Dec. 26, 2007, beating of fitness trainer Darius Miller, 42, in a parking
lot near the Verve nightclub. Miller has been in a coma ever since.

The attack attracted media coverage because Miller was reportedly beat up while trying to shield Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin’s two daughters, Kai Franklin Graham and Kali Jamilla Franklin, from several men trying to videotape them that night in the parking lot.

Holmes’ attorney, Harvey, said Tuesday night that Holmes believed he was wrongly accused in the beating. Some witnesses said as many as 10 men attacked Miller that night, although there were never any other arrests made. Harvey said Holmes was ready to take his case before a jury.

“We had a court date about a week ago, and we were in a position of defending the case,” Harvey said. “I always thought he [Holmes] was very positive, looking forward to having his day in court.” No trial date had been set for Holmes.

Harvey said Holmes’ suicide has turned a single tragedy into a double tragedy. “We have the tragedy of the man in a persistent com
a and now we have the tragedy of a family having to deal with this suicide.”

The mother of Darius Miller, Patricia Bonhomme, said Tuesday that Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard told her that the case “now goes back to the Atlanta Police Department” for further investigation. Howard could not be reached for comment late Tuesday evening.

Her son now lives with her, she said. The past year has been difficult emotionally and financially, Bonhomme said.

“It’s a brain injury and you cannot put a dollar price on it, and doctors cannot put a prognosis on it,” she said.

[Johnny99]

Seems to be a more common occurance lately, this self eradication. Let us hope the rising trend continues into the new year and beyond.