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MARCH 9 - 15, 2023
www.THECHAMPIONNEWSPAPER.com
VOL 32 • NO. 37
e CHAMPION
The official legal organ of DeKalb County, EA. Serving East Atlanta, Avondale Estates, Brookhaven, Chamblee, Clarkston, Decatur, Doraville, Dunwoody, Uthonia, Pine Lake, Tucker, Stonecrest and Stone Mountain.
504
LOCAL
Civil rights
activist
honored in
Stonecrest
PAGE 3
LOCAL
Police
investigate
shooting that
sent Decatur
High School into
lockdown
PAGE 7
SPORTS
Cedar Grove
basketball
advances
to state
championship
PAGE 12
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Police make arrests at Atlanta Police Training
Facility site after equipment destroyed, fires set
BY CHRISTINE FONVILLE
CHRISTINE@DEKALBCHAMP.COM
Approximately 35 people were
arrested during a music festival
in the South River Forest after
officials with the city of Atlanta
said, "A group of violent agitators
conducted a coordinated attack on
construction equipment and police
officers."
On March 5, videos on social
media platforms such as Twitter
showed clouds of smoke and
construction equipment on fire
toward the end of the two-day
festival held in South River/
Weelaunee Forest and the location
SEE ARRESTS ON PAGE 6
Officials with the Atlanta Police Department said they made approximately 35 arrests in the South
River Forest after construction equipment was destroyed. The site, located in DeKalb County, is
where the future Atlanta Police Training Center is scheduled to be built. File Photo
In this photo, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens speaks after protests at the site of the
Atlanta Police Training Facility. File photo
Atlanta mayor announces new South
River Forest and Public Safety Training
Center Community Task Force
BY CHRISTINE FONVILLE
CHRISTINE@DEKALBCHAMP.COM
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens
recently announced that he is
establishing a new task force "to
further engage the community
on plans for the Atlanta Public
Safety Training Center site, as well
as the surrounding green space,
including the former Atlanta
Prison Farm."
Dickens made the
Suspect arrested in
shooting death of
pregnant woman
BY JAY PHILLIPS
JAY@dekalbchamp.com
A suspect was arrested Feb. 27
in connection with the Feb. 2
shooting death of a pregnant
woman in Clarkston.
DeKalb County Sheriff's Office Fugitive
Unit, with DeKalb County Police S.W.A.T.,
announced the arrest of 22-year-old suspect
Diamonte Oiy'Shawn Haithcoats of Stone
Mountain without incident outside a barber
shop on Memorial Drive in Decatur.
A warrant for Haithcoats' arrest charges
him with malice murder in the shooting
death of Shaniyah Monet Rodriguez on
Old Singleton Lane in the Brannon Hill
condominium community.
According to the warrant, Rodriguez was
seven months pregnant with Haithcoats'
child at the time of the shooting and they
lived together in the victim's mother's home.
Authorities reported that Rodriguez was
found unresponsive with a gunshot wound
to the head after reports of gunfire in the
SEE TASK FORCE ON PAGE 13
SEE SHOOTING ON PAGE 6
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