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Earlier Thursday, a man was found hanging from a tree by the neck in Atlanta's Piedmont Park. Around 5 a.m., Atlanta police entered the park to find a man hanging from a tree, and medical first responders pronounced the man dead at the scene. City officials haven't yet said who the man found in Piedmont Park was, but they have said that a medical examiner said the circumstances of his death are consistent with a suicide. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed issued a statement later in the day expressing his grief for the loss of this heretofore-unidentified man and that they are referring the case to the FBI. He promised Atlantans that he will get to the bottom of the situation in the statement: Everything we have seen suggests that there was no foul play involved, but I want to state clearly and unequivocally that we will not prejudge the circumstances surrounding this young man's death. While APD and the city are treating the man's death as a suicide, social media user...

The High Court in Pretoria sentenced him to 6 years in prison for shooting & killing her in 2013. Oscar Pistorius in the North Gauteng High Court on 15 June 2016. PRETORIA - Judge Thokozile Masipa says the murder of Reeva Steenkamp has destroyed the lives and families of two people and left her murderer,  Oscar Pistorius , a ruined man.  The High Court in Pretoria  sentenced Pistorius to six years in prison  for shooting and killing her in 2013.  The Supreme Court of Appeal overturned his initial culpable homicide conviction last year and replaced it with murder. WATCH: Pistorius handed six years for Steenkamp’s murder Judge Masipa says she carefully considered the evidence of Barry Steenkamp and Reeva’s cousin, Kim Martin.  She says Pistorius’s life will also never be the same.  Masipa says Pistorius has shown remorse.  GOOD CANDIDATE FOR REHAB While handing down the sentence, Masipa empha...