Posted by theprofessional on December 31, 2007, 11:46 am || Total Votes: 1
A man wanted in connection with last week's brutal beating of a personal fitness trainer turned himself in to authorities Monday morning, Atlanta police said.
Apollo Holmes turned himself in at the Fulton County Jail at around 8 a.m., according to Atlanta police spokesman James Polite.
Holmes, 24, has been charged with aggravated assault in the attack early Wednesday on Darius Miller in a parking lot outside two popular Peachtree Street nightclubs in Midtown Atlanta.
Miller, 41, was attacked during a dispute that witnesses said started when Mayor Shirley Franklin's daughters complained about being videotaped outside one of the clubs, He remained in a coma over the weekend at Emory Crawford Long Hospital.
Police spokeswoman Judy Pal has said the investigation was continuing and that more arrests were possible.
Holmes was "affiliated" with 01 Entertainment, a party promoter that was videotaping an event the company staged at one of the clubs Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, according to a lawyer for 01 Entertainment.
Attorney Page Pate said Holmes was in the parking lot at the time.
Witnesses said the fight started because of objections to videotaping people leaving the clubs.
But the accounts differ on what happened as Kai Franklin Graham, 35, Kali Jamilla Franklin, 29, and a third woman who has not been identified came into an adjoining parking lot at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday.
In one version, witnesses said as soon as a man turned his video camera on the three women, Miller, who has a number of celebrity clients, asked him to stop. At that point, witnesses said, about 10 men attacked Miller.
But in a telephone interview Saturday, Pate said 01 Entertainment contends the sisters started the argument that led to Miller's injuries when Graham and her sister demanded the camera from the man they believed had just photographed them.
The attorney said Miller had gone to retrieve his truck and was not present when the dispute began.
"[The sisters] started arguing with them, saying they were already famous and they don't need to be famous," Pate said. "He [Miller] heard the argument between the mayor's daughters and he jumped into the middle of it."
Pate said Miller tried to take the camera, and two other people came up to help the photographer.
"I don't think it was as big of a melee as has been described," Pate said. "There weren't a lot of blows thrown."
Then Miller went to his truck,"saying he wants to air this out," prompting one of the 01 Entertainment contractors to fear Miller was getting a weapon, Pate said.
"As he [Miller] was trying to go into the passenger seat ... he fell down and was wrestling with one of them," Pate said.
Miller, he continued, "got back up and he fell ... He fell back ... on the pavement with the back of his head."
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