With its playgrounds, convenience-store hangouts and a tight-knit community, Atlanta Street and its’ apartments often felt like an island or a city within a city to Gainesville Police.But when the final bricks came down, Investigator Brad Raper said he hoped the power dynamics in the area would change, allowing him to solve a case that has plagued him for years: the homicide of Phillip Ronald Smith.
Investigator hopes for new leads in Atlanta Street slaying