ATMORE, Ala. — There’s a new restaurant now open in Atmore. It’s in the location where a shooting took place last month.<\/p>\n
The Wing and Burger Box closed its doors for good shortly after that shooting back on May 7. Police found 47 shell casings at the scene. No one was hurt.<\/p>\n
The new owners are hoping to change a negative stigma that surrounds the building and the area. They tell WEAR News they had no idea about the shooting prior to signing the lease.<\/p>\n
On May 7, gunfire erupted out in front of the Wing and Burger Box in Atmore. Just over a week later, the restaurant closed for good.<\/p>\n
The family posted on Facebook thanking the community for their support. Fast forward to now, Shamiel Edwards and her son are opening up a Caribbean restaurant in the same building, called “Atmore Real Reggae Kitchen,” hoping to give the place a fresh start.<\/p>\n
“I was inquiring to start a Caribbean restaurant and I went online. And this gentlemen told me he wanted to get out of his lease,” Edwards said. “So I came, we talked, and he said it was quite nice and safe, and we just want to go back to Wyoming.”<\/p>\n
Edwards tells WEAR News the previous owners did not tell her about the shooting. She discovered the bullet holes in the walls and windows shortly after signing the lease.<\/p>\n
“One of the coverings was from here,” said Edwards. “Before I can officially open, I need to have that replaced.”<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Atmore Police arrested the last of six suspects wanted for the shooting on Main Street. WEAR News spoke with a business owner who said the shootings have become far too common.<\/p>\n
“I was here at the bakery doing stuff for the next day and you could here the gunshots,” said Niki Willfond. “I didn’t go outside because sadly it’s kinda normal hearing gunshots.”<\/p>\n
Willfond is one of the owners of K & N Sugar Shop Sweets & Treats. She says the violence won’t scare her business off.<\/p>\n
“I’m not gonna quit on my dream of the bakery and to be successful just to run because something happened,” said Willfond. <\/p>\n
Of the six suspects arrested in this case, three of them are juveniles. Atmore Police say they are charging them as adults.<\/p>\n
In January, Atmore officials floated the idea of having a citywide curfew, but the city council shut down the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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