Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Sean Callahan, who was killed in the line of duty this week, joined the Clayton County Police Department in August.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
The funeral for a first-year Clayton County Police officer killed in the line of duty this week will take place Friday at East Cobb's Johnson Ferry Baptist Church. Sean Callahan, 24, who joined the force in August, died early Tuesday after being shot twice in the head while responding to a domestic dispute at a motel in Stockbridge on Monday afternoon. He graduated in 2006 from Lassiter High School, where he was a varsity swimmer, and also attended Mabry Middle School. A Lassiter guidance counselor told The Marietta Daily Journal that Callahan expressed to her an interest in studying criminal justice. According to The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Callahan paid his own way to Reinhardt University's Police Academy and graduated in June 2011…
Monday, December 26, 2011
The killing of Marietta's Jameela Barnette by police has renewed interest in the hate-filled packages she admitted sending to lawmakers in April.
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Monday, December 26, 2011
Usually after a police officer kills someone, the reaction focuses on whether the shooting was justified. Not in the death of Jameela Barnette. While her fatal shooting at the Bexley apartment complex Sunday morning remains under investigation by Cobb County police, even two people who said they are her siblings commented on Patch that they hold no ill will toward the officer. "I pray that the officer involved finds some type of peace with knowing he took a life out of fear for his own life," posted Patch user Bennie Barnette, who said he was the woman's brother. But the Internet is full of fresh commentary on what Barnette admitted doing in April: sending a bloody pig's foot to New York Congressman Peter King and mailing a package …
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
The 53-year-old Marietta resident was assaulting the officer with a knife and handgun, a police spokesman says.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
The woman killed Sunday is the woman involved in mailing the threatening packages in April, the New York Post reported. Jameela Barnette was indicted and arrested last month on federal charges related to mailing a package that was a hoax weapon of mass destruction, the Post said. A federal judge released her without posting bond, the Post added A Cobb County police officer fatally shot a woman at an apartment just outside the Marietta city limits this morning. The woman, Jameela Cecila Barnette, 53, answered a knock at a door at the Bexley apartment complex in the 300 block of Penny Lane by charging out with a knife and a handgun, police spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce said in a news release. Barnette assaulted and injured the officer who had …
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Val Walker Myers
1:01 pm on Wednesday, December 19, 2012
This is so sad more ›