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Newspaper Page TextUNITED WE STAND FAMILY*COUNTHP Issue 3 Thursday, JANUARY 20, 2022 The Voice of Crawford County Since 1921 also serving Byron and Peach County 1 Section 10 Pages, 2 Inserts One Dollar Officer’s name released in shooting After last week’s story con cerning the officer involved shooting on January g, was printed, the deputy’s name was released the following day. The officer involved in the shooting of Denrick Stallings, is William Owenby. According to Crawford County Sher iff Lewis Walker, Deputy Owenby has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investiga tion by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and review by the Macon Judicial Circuit. Owenby was previously cleared after a domestic violence call where Jamie Darley allegedly fired shots at deputies and threatened to kill his family members before leading deputies on a high speed chase. At the end of the chase, Darley was running toward his family with a gun and firing at deputies before he was fatally shot. The shoot ing was ruled justified. According to the GBI, Owenby was trying to pull over Stallings for speeding; a chase occurred and Stallings crashed his car, leading to a foot chase. GBI says Owenby tased Stallings, causing him to hit the ground. A struggle oc curred when the deputy tried to put Stallings under arrest and Stallings tried to grab the deputy’s gun. The deputy fired the gun, fatally hitting the 47-year-old Stallings. In spite of his previous arrest record, some of the Stallings family has said they do not be lieve the preliminary findings; mentioning he was honorably discharged from the Marines and that he attended church. They posted he was buried with full military honors. The GBI is continuing the investigation and their find ings will be turned over to the district attorney’s office once completed. Press conference was held Tuesday The District Attorney’s Office and GBI held a press conference at the Craw ford County Courthouse to update the course of the investigation. No new information on the investigation was given at the press conference. Dis trict Attorney Anita Howard stated her office will not do anything to jeopardize the investigation and “have to follow the evidence.” Jerry Jones, GBI Special Agent in Charge stated they are still collecting evidence and information from wit nesses. Questions were asked by Denrick Stallings’ father and mother on specific details of the case in which Jones stated he would get with the family to give what informa tion he can. Since this in an ongoing in vestigation, the GBI and Dis trict Attorney’s Office cannot give pertinent information to jeopardize the investigation. CCMS wresting team places third in tournament Crawford County Middle School’s wresting team placed third in who helped them win. Vaughn, pictured in center, says there is a the Lake County tournament for middle schools. Coach Vaughn lot to expect in the coming years from this group of young men. and the team wanted to thank all the sponsors and supports Planning begins for bicentennial celebration Crawford County will be 200 years of age on December 9 2022. City of Roberta was founded later and a celebration of its too birthday was held in 2010. Roberta is now the sole surviving incorporated city in Crawford County. A rich histo ry of people, places and events, this county flies the Lone Star Flag of Texas because it was made here by Joanna Trout man. Coca Cola developer Dr. John Pemberton was born here and in his youth spent summers here with his uncle who was also a chemist. The Bartram Trail runs through Crawford revealing the plants indige nous to the area. Noted historian and writer political philosopher, Alexis De Tocqueville a French an aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist, political philosopher and historian, best known for his works “Democracy in America” (appearing in two volumes, 1835 and 1840) in cluded Crawford County in his historic works. Still more in our history and the people in many eras will be part of this celebration of his tory and longevity of the two century life of the county. Being on the “Wire Road’ with stage coach line traveling families set tling in Knox ville Georgia lived in a very prosperous small city. Sur rounding the city were the farmers who built the farms to supply their families and needed live lihood. This led to the many who began to kiln clay into pots for storage, butter churns and decorative pots handed down through the generations. Smaller towns doted the landscape of the county noted to be on the fall line, where the sand of the sea and the clay waited on the potters hand to bring his talent creating needed and decorative pieces of pottery. Your historical So ciety has books to sell telling about this county. And now, after 200 years the community will travel back to celebrate the people and the county in a week’s celebration; thoughtfully, bring ing the past to life in a celebration. Planning for Crawford County Bi- cen- ten- nial began last week with most of the members present. About 20 members called and some were unable to attend but will continue to be on the planning stages. Directing the celebra tion as chair is Richard Hatch er, Vice Chair is Terry How ard, Secretary is Patti Temple, Treasurer is Barbra Cook with husband Troy Cook as Finan cial Director to assume the po sition to acquire a LLC needed for any organization accepting funding. the planning board did decide to plan on a week celebration beginning the first Sunday in December and ending on the Saturday week with a pa rade, calling the celebration Christmas in 1822. The parade would depict the time and era with appropriate carts drawn by animals with a turn to the motorized vehicles at the end of the parade. The planning board promises a week of fun celebration. A meeting of the board will be held each month and the end result will be that Crawford will have a great memorable event this December. A few facts about Crawford County: • Crawford County was the 57th county formed in Geor gia. • The 325-square-mile (840 km2) county was created on December 9,1822, from Hous ton County, which had been formed from land given up by the Creek Indians in the 1821 Treaty of Indian Springs. •The county was named for William H. Crawford, who was U. S. Secretary of the Treasury when the county was created. • In 1823 the Georgia State Legislature designated Knox ville as the county seat and a courthouse square was laid out. Knoxville was named for Revolutionary War General Henry Knox (1750-1806), who, Partnership provides protective items for community mnonymt f ./ 1 ok \ £ __ j A a m 23 V-B-G Drive-thru Distribution was held on Dec. 20,2021 giving out protective items for citizens while the state is still coping with many viruses. Many of the partners were in attendance. Aaron Adams, CareSource, Tara Cobs Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Suicide Prevention. Tambra Foster, Behavioral Health Links, Boy Scouts Adult Master Matt Ogle and Scouts Gabriel Ogle, Nathaniel Richards, Kaleb Jackson, Eric Johnson and Amonte Quincey.