As the city of Atlanta hosted a news conference to address its 154th homicide of the year, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said she takes the issue of crime âvery seriously.â
âI want to be clear: I know what Iâm responsible for in the city and I take it very seriously,â she said at the Dec. 29 conference, where she and two Atlanta Police Department leaders spoke about the police identifying and issuing warrants for a suspect in the Dec. 21 Buckhead shooting of 7-year-old Kennedy Maxie, who died five days later. âIf thereâs something weâre not doing and we havenât enacted or should be doing better, my ego is small enough to ask what we need to do to improve things.
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An 18-year-old Nebraska man was shot and killed early Tuesday morning by members of the US Marshal s Service in Atlanta s Pittsburgh neighborhood, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
The Marshals were attempting to serve an arrest warrant on Jaquan Haynes, who was wanted in connection with the shooting death of a 19-year-old Omaha woman in late October.
According to GBI public affairs director Nelly Miles, officers from the US Marshal s Service Southeastern Regional Fugitive Task Force knocked on the front door and announced themselves at the home located on Mayland Circle, S.W., at about 6:40 a.m.
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Top Regional News: COVID complications kill in 18 Peoria area over Christmas weekend
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COVID complications kill in 18 Peoria area over Christmas weekend
PEORIA – Eighteen Peoria area people died over the Christmas holiday weekend due to complications after being infected with the novel coronavirus.
Public health officials announced that nine people from Peoria County and nine people from Tazewell County died between Dec. 24 and Monday. That brings the Tri-County death toll to 385 since the pandemic began; since Dec. 1, 128 people have died.
Within Peoria County, there were five men and four women who died. All but one were older than 60. The one man who in his 20s had prior health conditions that could have contributed to his death, public health officials said. In Peoria County, three were residents of Sharon Elms and one was a resident of Sharon Willows.
Atlanta proposes to spend $1.6million on private police force for wealthy suburb - known as The Beverly Hills of the East - as Dem star mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms admits she doesn t know how to stop crime wave after 7-year-old girl is shot dead
Atlanta city council members have proposed a $1.6million plan to create a private police force in Buckhead, one of its wealthiest suburbs
Comes after Kennedy Maxie, 7, was shot in the head by a stray bullet after Christmas shopping with her family on December 21
The proposal has so far been backed by local law enforcement and members of Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms administration