Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
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Sgt. Albert C. Jackson
Recruit Tara Drummond
Instructor ID'd in Fatal Academy Accident
AUSTELL, Ga. (CBS 46 & AP) -- Authorities have released the name of the instructor involved in a deadly shooting accident this week at the North Central Georgia Law Enforcement Academy in Cobb County. He is veteran instructor Cobb Co. Deputy Sheriff's Sgt. Albert Jackson.
The city of Kennesaw held a moment of silence Thursday to remember the police trainee who was accidentally killed.
23-year-old Tara Drummond -- a recruit with the Kennesaw Police Dep
artment -- died Tuesday after being shot once in the chest.
Officials say Jackson violated safety rules by having a loaded gun.
Cobb Co
unty Sheriff Neil Warren -- who is leading the investigation into the shooting -- says ammunition is banned from the building. Warren declined to release the instructor's name or any initial findings as to why he had the pistol.
Bob Sanderson is assistant director of the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth. He says state policy bans any working firearm -- loaded or not -- from academy classrooms. The state oversees the center in Austell and nine other regional police academies.
Warren says Jackson will remain on paid leave until an investigation by the sheriff, county police and Austell police is finished. He says the instructor had been with the academy for ten years.
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Affirmative Action Strikes Again!
T.N.B.
Sgt. Albert C. Jackson
Recruit Tara Drummond
Instructor ID'd in Fatal Academy Accident
AUSTELL, Ga. (CBS 46 & AP) -- Authorities have released the name of the instructor involved in a deadly shooting accident this week at the North Central Georgia Law Enforcement Academy in Cobb County. He is veteran instructor Cobb Co. Deputy Sheriff's Sgt. Albert Jackson.
The city of Kennesaw held a moment of silence Thursday to remember the police trainee who was accidentally killed.
23-year-old Tara Drummond -- a recruit with the Kennesaw Police Dep
artment -- died Tuesday after being shot once in the chest.
Officials say Jackson violated safety rules by having a loaded gun.
Cobb Co
unty Sheriff Neil Warren -- who is leading the investigation into the shooting -- says ammunition is banned from the building. Warren declined to release the instructor's name or any initial findings as to why he had the pistol.
Bob Sanderson is assistant director of the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth. He says state policy bans any working firearm -- loaded or not -- from academy classrooms. The state oversees the center in Austell and nine other regional police academies.
Warren says Jackson will remain on paid leave until an investigation by the sheriff, county police and Austell police is finished. He says the instructor had been with the academy for ten years.
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Affirmative Action Strikes Again!
T.N.B.