Don Aaron
Don Aaron
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They were afforded the opportunity to get out of the roadway and they didn't.
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The driver stayed in her car on the street because she believed he couldn't make it down the stairs, because he was staggering so badly when she first encountered him.
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The fumes spread from the construction area into the records office. Several employees reported smelling noxious fumes. Several became lightheaded. A few became nauseated.
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You can't fire weapons in urban areas. It is an urban area. Certainly there are places in Davidson County that are extensively wooded. There also are large open fields in Davidson County. I would refer to that area in Bellevue at the movie theater as an urban area.
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It was a process that certainly could have been better than it was months ago. I will hasten to add that we have taken steps to drastically improve that process.
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Mr. Overton filed a civil lawsuit on behalf of the family. He is zealously representing them as their advocate. I think it's best that I don't engage in a debate with him over the lawsuit.
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Nobody saw anyone being handcuffed. Officer Gant was moving into a position of cover. He was coming around a planter with a tree in it. His view was partially obstructed when the shot was fired. Sgt. Reed was in the arrest process.
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Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.
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There has been the realization by criminals that, from time to time, persons mail bills and other payment remittances using residential mailboxes. They just hoist the red flag on the box. But while the red flag is an alert to the postman, it is, unfortunately, an alert to certain thieves.
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We can't do it on every missing adult. In this situation, we had an adult, albeit a mentally challenged individual, who, in the past, had been known to go elsewhere.
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We believe that his statement was credible, and we at this point do not suspect that Jones was involved in the firing of the shots.
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We would remind people that the Central Police Precinct is headquartered at the GEC. The police presence will be strong.
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The police department's investigation is very much continuing. At this point in the investigation, six female students at Paragon Mills have reported inappropriate contact by the teacher. The police department takes accusations such as this very seriously. In any case such as this we'd ask that anybody in the community who has information about this to contact the police department.
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When the results of the testing are known, we will be in a much better position to take the next course of action. We have to work through some unique issues in this case, but we know enough about the victim, her circumstances, and the people with whom she was associated. We do not think the circumstances are going to be insurmountable.