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Murder Kroger is the nickname of a Kroger supermarket in Atlanta which has been the scene of two fatal shootings and the discovery of a corpse. It is located at 725 Ponce de Leon Avenue in Poncey–Highland and has been known as "Murder Kroger" for decades.
Murder Kroger would like to be called Beltline Kroger now. Well, if it still existed, it would like to. Before its was demo'd, they were spiffing the place up, connecting it to the Beltline...
The Collierville Kroger shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on September 23, 2021, at a Kroger grocery store in Collierville, Tennessee. One person was killed and 13 others were injured before the gunman, identified as 29-year-old Uk Thang, committed suicide by gunshot.
Nothing can keep Damon Parker from shopping at Atlanta’s new Kroger, not even the awful memory of a murder he witnessed there 28 years ago.
One man in attendance saw nothing sad nor sentimental about plans to replace the store known as Murder Kroger with a $140 million mixed-use mid-rise (which will also include a 60,000 square-foot Kroger adjacent to the Beltline).
Crudely dubbed after it’s long history of random killings, “Murder Kroger” is known around Atlanta for it’s scary past. But what exactly happened for an innocent looking supermarket to earn such an intense name?
In 1991, there was a murder in the parking lot where Cynthia Prioleau, 25, was fatally shot. For most of the next 23 years, it earned the store an unfortunate nickname: "Murder Kroger."
Atlanta's most famous/infamous Kroger earned and kept its nickname due to an overall sketchy reputation and two (now three) tragedies: the 1991 killing of a 25-year-old woman in its parking lot,...
By the time Joshua Richey, a construction worker, was killed in 2015 in the Kroger's parking lot by two men trying to break into his truck, the lore of Murder Kroger was near its zenith. The...
The violence paved the way for a nickname that some directly affected by the crimes hope will vanish as the store reopens this October after a top-to-bottom rebuild: “Murder Kroger.”