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UWG student charged with armed robbery
By Nicholas Kirby
Sports Editor
nkirbyl @my.westga.edu
Clarissa Hoskins, a
21-year-old West Georgia
student from Mableton, and
her 30-year-old boyfriend
are being held without
bond at the Carrollton
jail following an armed
robbery at the Bank of
America on Maple Street
last Tuesday.
Carrollton police say
Oliver Twist Williams,
30, of Carrollton, went
into the Bank of America
branch shortly after 9 a.m.
on March 21 armed with a
semi-automatic handgun
and ordered the customers
and employees in the bank
at the time to get on the
ground.
Williams then pointed
the gun at two tellers and
instructed them to fill a
backpack with money.
According to
Two men arrested for alleged rape of student
By Nicholas Kirby
Sports Editor
nkirbyl @my.westga.edu
Two suspects have
been charged in the
alleged rape of a West
Georgia freshman on
March 15.
Joseph Gillian Hayes,
19, and Israaell Chaz
Davis, 19, have both been
charged with rape in the
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A student lies silently on the ground In front of the UCC to commemorate the third an
niversary of the Iraq war. More than 2,000 coalition soldiers have been killed while more
than 35,000 Iraqi civlllians have been killed. While the die-in was peaceful, there were
some who disapproved of the students’ actions.
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Carrollton Police Captain
Chris Dobbs, the police
department received a call
at 9:11 a.m. on Tuesday
morning about an armed
man inside the Bank of
America demanding
money from the tellers.
By the time police
arrived, which was
probably less than a minute,
according to Dobbs, the
suspect had already left
the area.
Carrollton police
began receiving calls
detailing “suspicious”
activity in the area.
One call led police
to the Gold's Gym at 830
Maple Street. Dobbs said
the police department
received a call saying that
the suspect was possibly
inside the gym.
Police entered the
gym and secured the doors.
Those inside the gym,
about 50 people, according
to Dobbs, were instructed
case.
Hayes and Davis
shared an apartment at The
Lofts on Lovvom Road,
and it is in their apartment
that the rape allegedly
occurred.
The 18-year-old
female student told police
that she and a group of
friends had gone to the
apartment of the suspects
around 9:30 p.m. on
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to come up to the front
while the police searched
the area.
No one matching the
description of the suspect
was found in the gym.
The police began to
question the people inside
the gym, and one woman
in the pool area stated that
she saw a suspicious male
come in with a book bag.
The woman told police
that the man began to
pace back and forth in the
pool area, and while she
thought that it was odd for
the man to pace back and
forth from one side of the
pool to the other, she did
not think a whole lot about
it, according to Dobbs.
Dobbs said the woman
gave police a description
of the man she saw and it
fit the description they had
of the suspect.
At around 9:30 a.m.,
the police asked Gold’s
Gym to give them a
March 15.
While there, the
female told police that
she began to consume
alcohol, but it is not clear
if she was intoxicated at
the time the rape is said
to have happened.
The female said that
a few of her friends left
“to go pick something
up,” leaving her alone in
the living room with the
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The Bank of America on Maple Street was the scene of an armed robbery last week.
Clarissa Hoskins, a UWG student, was charged for her involvment in the robbery.
printout of everyone
who had scanned their
card that morning upon
entering the gym.
The police went down
two suspects she had just
met while another female
friend was in a different
room with another male.
According to the
female, at around 11 p.m.
Hayes and Davis led her
into a bedroom in the
apartment and began to
rape her.
According to
a Carrollton Police
Department Incident
By Kelly Williams
Copy Editor
Kellyuwga @bellsouth.net
On March 16,
several students gathered
to remember those who
have lost their lives in
the Iraq war.
Two tombstones
were erected outside the
University Community
Center listing death tolls
for American soldiers and
Iraqi civilians.
The die-in event
was sponsored by West
Georgia’s Student Peace
Action Network.
It began shortly after
noon with an opening by
David Sluder, a member
of SPAN.
Passages were then
read from both major
religions, Islam and
Christianity, to remember
those who have died.
After the readings, a
bell was sounded to signify
the start of the die-in.
Fourteen students
and faculty joined in and
lay down across the front
of the UCC.
Several students were
confused. One student
the list to make sure that
everyone in the gym was
accounted for.
“There were two
individuals who were not
Report, the friends who
had left earlier returned at
an undisclosed time, and ;T
female in the group reported
hearing cries of “No”
coming from the bedroom
the female was in.
According to the
report, she began to knock
on the locked door until the
suspects finally unlocked it.
She then grabbed the
female, and they left the
passing by said, “It's a
bunch of dead bodies.”
Another student who
walked up thought the
bodies were from truth,
com to represent the deaths
caused by cigarettes.
After the bell rang and
the die-in began, SPAN
members Joshua Eaton,
David Sluder and Lauren
Rench read aloud the
names of Americans and
Iraqis who had died.
While they read
aloud one passerby
shouted, “God Bless the
U.S. folks!”
Some students were
shocked. Brittany Carter,
a UWG freshman, could
only say “wow.”
Alicia Moore, a
freshman, said, “We just
walked out and they were
laying out there.”
Though shocked both
Carter and Moore said it
was a positive shock.
Moore said, “It’s more
of a memorial service.”
Other students,
however, did not share the
same sentiments as Carter
and Moore.
One student who was
a marine shouted out his
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there that had scanned
(their cards) at 9 a.m.,”
said Dobbs. “And that
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apartment.
Hayes was arrested at
11:30 p.m. on March 15
near the scene.
Davis had Hed the
area, and a warrant was
issued for his arrest.
Davis turned himself
into Carrollton police on
March 18 after police
officers were able to
contact him and persuade
him to do so.
rank as he passed by.
One student, Chris
Arthur, belonged to the
Navy for seven years.
Arthur believed the group’s
message to be “shortsighted
and ignorant.”
Arthur said, “It’s
accurate for them to wear
blinders because they are
blind to what happens
over there.”
The die-in continued
with students watching
and David Sluder returned
to the microphone to say
the die-in was to “illustrate
the human cost.”
Afterwards, Dr. Mark
Kunkel of the Psychology
department played guitar
and sang, "Where have all
the flowers gone?”
Reflecting on the
event Sluder said, “I think
it went very well.”
“The turnout was
what we had expected
and I think several people
received a pretty powerful
message, which is all we
were hoping for.”
Anyone is invited to
attend SPAN meetings.
They are held every
Thursday night at 8 p.m. in
UCC room 208.