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Atlanta police chief outlines Brookhaven police make summer crime plan arrest in Peachtree Creek Greenway stabbing BY AMY WENK
The police department also plans to better invesAtlanta Police Chief tigate and inspect nightRodney Bryant plans to clubs. Bryant said over 50 combat summer crime officers were trained to by putting more officers supplement those efforts. on the streets, addressing In addition, he said the gun violence and targetpolice department would ing nightclubs. leverage partnerships “Every summer we bewith various law enforcegin to see some increases ment agencies to disrupt in crime,” said the chief. gang violence. “Gangs in “That’s due to a number the city of Atlanta really of schools being out, the have their tentacles in evnumber of social activiery aspect of every kind of ties we have throughout crime you could imagine,” our city.” Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant said. While the police deBryant. (Special) The police chief is partment tries to hire 250 also focused on the city’s more officers, the chief youth. He said one offisaid administrative percer per zone would be dedicated to youth sonnel would be shifted to help boost daily engagement programs, and video surveilpatrols. He also plans to increase the numlance will keep a watch on areas kids tend ber of weekend commanders. to congregate, such as Lenox Square Mall. As he said in early June, Bryant is reBut Bryant said, “violent crime cannot structuring the police department, giving be fought with just police alone.” He plans more resources to its gun assault unit. “We to promote community policing efforts. “It have to do a better job of being able to find takes all of us to be partners in public safeout where these guns are coming from and ty.” cut that avenue off,” he said.
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JULY 2021 | REPORTER NEWSPAPERS
BY SAMMIE PURCELL The Brookhaven police arrested a man accused of the stabbing of a pregnant woman on the Peachtree Creek Greenway. According to the Brookhaven Police Department, 30-year-old Christopher Jones was arrested on June 10 in connection with the June 5 stabbing of an unnamed woman on the Peachtree Creek Greenway. Jones has been charged with aggravated assault, aggravated battery, and cruelty to children in the first degree. Police said Jones was identified by a tipster who recognized a photo captured by city security cameras along the Greenway. Working with other police departments, BPD located Jones, who was arrested near the MARTA Arts Center Station in Atlanta. BPD spokesperson Lt. David Snively said that Jones admitted to the stabbing, but investigators are still looking into what events led up to the incident. He also said investigators have determined that Jones has a history of mental illness and
During a June 10 press conference, Brookhaven police announced they had made an arrest in connection with the stabbing of a pregnant woman on the Peachtree Creek Greenway. (Sammie Purcell) is unhoused. “We believe that mental illness did play a role in this case,” Snively said. Snively said the victim – whose family has requested she remain unidentified – was pregnant and walking with her 3-yearold son, who was uninjured, at the time of the stabbing. The victim gave birth by an emergency C-section.
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