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No charges in road rage shooting
Camilla woman shot four times after
punching Stockbridge man in the face
By Steve Reece
stevereece@gmail.com
A Stockbridge man may have
been within his rights to shoot
a Camilla woman 3 times in the
chest in an 1-75 road rage incident
in Butts and Monroe counties on
March 31.
“Every citizen has a right to
self-defense,” said district attorney
Jonathan Adams, who will make
At left, Terry Penn, and middle, Tiana Burley, got into a road rage incident. At right,
Burney posted her gunshot wounds to her Facebook page.
the final decision about
criminal charges in the
case.
Tiana Janae Burley,
30, of Camilla was shot 3
times in the chest by Terry
Penn, 65, of Stockbridge
in the road rage incident.
According to a Monroe
County sheriff’s report,
Burley called dispatch after she was
shot and said she was following a
Kia Sportage driven by the man
who pulled the trigger. Still on the
phone with the wounded, dispatch
told Burley to pull over. But she
refused to do so until the SUV had
been stopped by law enforcement.
Deputies William Jackson and
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Five Below plans $21 million expansion
The Five Below warehouse in Smarr. (File photo)
By Will Davis
publisher™ my mcr.net
Monroe County’s Five
Below warehouse will soon
undergo a $21 million ex
pansion just four years after
it opened.
Monroe County has
issued a building permit to
ARCO Design of Atlanta
to construct a $21 million
addition to the Five Below
warehouse at 270 Logistics
Center Parkway in Smarr.
A Five Below spokesman
told the Reporter they will
add about 300,000 square
feet to their 715,000 square
foot warehouse, to be
completed in early 2024.
This will increase the ware
houses ability to serve 150
more Five Below stores and
could increase its work
force by up to 30 percent.
Monroe County chief tax
assessor Bobby Gerhardt
said the addition will mean
about $120,000 per year in
additional property tax rev
enue for Monroe County
schools. However, Monroe
County government will
not receive any new reve
nue from the Five Below
warehouse for another year
due to a 10-year tax break
granted to Five Below to
entice them to locate here
four years ago. Monroe
County commissioners will
receive their first payment
from Five Below next year
at 5 percent, and it will
increase by 5 percent each
successive year until it
reaches 100 percent.
A retailer of discount
goods, Five Below has
announced plans to open
200 stores in 2023, and to
remodel 400 stores.
The Five Below distribu
tion warehouse in Smarr
was hailed as one of the
first new big projects in
the county in years when it
opened in 2019.
The initial investment in
cluded $42 million in land
and building and about
$28 million in machin
ery and equipment. The
$21 million figure for the
expansion doesn’t include
machinery and equipment.
When that is added in, it
means the expansion could
wind up netting the school
system $200,000 per year.
The Monroe County
Industrial Development
Authority owns the proper
ty and leases it long-term to
Five Below.
Development authority
chairman Tom Baugh said
when Five Below opened
that the authority’s decision
to extend a sewer line from
the rest area to the property
at a cost of about $250,000
was key to attracting Five
Below. The sewer line was
extended to serve the Elec
tric Cooperative Training
Center on Rumble Road,
which had been on a septic
tank but is expanding and
needed sewer service.
Nearby Gresco Utility Sup
ply also expanded recently,
doubling the size of its
warehouse.
Baugh said in 2019 that
IDI, the Atlanta company
that manages the property,
is looking for a big retail
developer, like Love’s,
to put a gas station and
restaurant on a nearby cor
ner to serve the employees
and truck traffic from the
warehouse.
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$1,400. Tippins is a former Navy Seal who ran for governor
in 2018. He is offering the winner of the AR- 15a free Navy
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from PWS, subscribe or renew by April 14. Call 994-2358
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Strouds
leaving
Forsyth city councilman
Julius Stroud and his wife
Yvonne are moving to Col
orado. The Reporter learned
this after both Strouds
missed a meeting of the For
syth Housing Authority on
Tuesday, on which they both
serve. Julius Stroud said he is
resigning from the authority
for the move. Then Mrs.
Stroud s resignation from
her teaching job at T.G. Scott
Elementary was approved by
the BOE on Tuesday too.
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