That have been involved
in this investigation.
And with that, I'd like to read
a statement that was provided
to me by the link camp family.
Trent is transitioning.
He's beginning the next step of his care,
and we ask that you continue
to pray for Trent.
The family would like to state that
they're in full cooperation with
this investigation and the efforts
of all the law enforcement officers.
They want justice for Trent.
And hopefully we'll be able
to prevent this from happening
to anyone else in the future.
The investigators have been that
have been involved in this incident,
have been very working very
diligently on collecting evidence,
interviewing subjects and at this
point in time we've identified all
individuals that were involved in
the video as well as the photograph
of the victim sitting in the chair.
That took a lot of time.
We've collected a lot of evidence that
the Georgia Bureau of Investigation
is going to be helping us analyze.
We've also looked at other
aspects of this case.
As of today, investigators with the
Glenn County Police Department and
the Georgia Bureau of Investigations
continue to look into social media posts
that have been supplied to the office.
While we do appreciate the
information provided by this source,
there has been some misinformation that
is spread via this medium as well,
some of which to include the
misidentification of individuals that
were not involved in this incident,
which has affected many families
here in our local community.
The misinformation that's provided
via social media can hamper an
investigation because we we will
follow up on every lead that we
receive no matter where it comes from,
which means that the investigator
is drawn from other assignments of
critical information of importance
to this investigation to further
it by following false leads.
Like I said earlier,
currently forensic analysis is being
conducted on the devices collected.
As well as information that we
received from search warrants,
that information as well as
evidence is being sent off to
be analyzed by the GB I lab.
This isn't going to be an
overnight investigation of the
incident occurred on Tuesday.
It was reported to us and here
we are over a week later and
we're still investigating.
If we could just make a case off of
1 single photo or one single video
without getting any other type of evidence,
then that would not be a proper,
that would not be a thorough investigation.
And in this investigation we owe
it to this victim and to his family
to make sure we get it right.
If a picture could say 1000 words,
then the 1000 words that that
picture would say was that's a
horrible incident that occurred
that what that victim went through.
We can't rush to judgment.
We have to take our time on this
and that's what we're doing
in our society.
We should have a 0 tolerance for
bullying and the mistreatment of others.
That goes for any student.
That goes for any parent.
That goes for any adult.
And all I could ask is that
when you see something,
you have to say something.
A lot of this incident was
revealed via social media.
There were a lot of juveniles
that were at both of these
incidents and nothing was
spoken when they were occurring,
so I would ask that folks
not be afraid to speak up
this. This incident may not have even
been reported if the victim didn't end
up in the hospital, which is really sad.
I want to thank all of our Lauren
Park Enforcement partners that have
assisted us in this matter today,
the Georgia Bureau of Investigations,
our District Attorney's Office,
the Glenn County School Police as well as
the the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
That's all I have to say.
Would the people whose home
this took place that would they
be responsible for anything,
would they possibly be facing
criminal charges as well?
So we're not. Taking anything off the table,
we're looking at this from this
investigation from a holistic point of view.
Not only the parents that the
home that this occurred in,
but we're also looking into where
the alcohol was obtained from as
well as any type of narcotics.
We also know that this has been named that
easy investigation by your department,
originally logged as an assault
call when it was put into the
cab system for your dispatchers.
And then name the agent incident
and the press release for you all.
According to our legal experts,
this case doesn't fit the
Georgia law for hazing.
Is this still the agent investigation
this investigators, I would agree with you,
this does not meet Georgia Code for
hazing because it doesn't involve
a public public school event or
organization that's related to the school.
Our victim was an adult as you as
you're aware of the individuals
that are involved in this,
other individuals that are involved
in this thing. Are juveniles,
so it would not rise to that definition. I
agree. And do you see yourself
to the agency arrested us or do
you believe that this will be a
case President in the grand jury?
We're going to collect the facts.
That's our job.
After we collect all the facts,
then we'll consult with the District
Attorney's office and we'll allow
him to make that determination. If
you had other calls to that
house previously before this,
any sort of other incidents?
No incidents of this
magnitude or of this nature.
We had a total of about 10 calls.
I believe it was from August
or September of 2022 until a
couple days after the event.
A lot of the calls that we had
there revolved around or center
after this incident of officers
going by doing neighborhood
patrols and things of that sort.
She was there, a parent home.
All the drinking was taking place.
We're still investigating what,
where that, where we are on that. There's
been a number of threats that have
been issued to a number of there's
been a list of families that are
may or may not be involved in this,
not officially confirmed.
I understand there was some threats
towards members of those families.
Is that also being investigated?
We are going to look into
that before I came into,
well I'm I am aware of other folks
that are misidentified that had
nothing to do with this investigation.
We will be looking into that if
they make a complaint to our
office. Have you all look further into
the police report states that his
father train father told police that
train has in the hospital prior to that
incident for a laceration over his eyes.
Is that something that you all are
taking correct in this investigation as
well? We're looking at the
whole combination of things,
not just the incident with him
sitting in the chair or the
incident where he's being water,
water hose is being used on him.
But one of the things that we have to do
is go back and re interview our victim,
right? We just recently had an
opportunity to interview him for
for the first time back on Sunday.
At that point in time obviously he was
still being treated at a hospital.
So we need to go back and re interview him.
Keep that picture of him in the
chair and the video of him being
Hoser are those two separate nights.
That is what that is, correct.
And the video of him being hosed is that
the night that the dad mentioned that he
came home with a go spray paint WD40 on
him. I don't know if we've
nailed that part down, but we do.
We have confirmed that there
those were two different nights
or two different incidents just
happening in your community,
the fact that it is so.
All, and I guess has so many people
upset just seeing this here.
What happened as a member of this community,
not just the police chief,
what do you say to people who
are looking now at Glynn County
across the country and saying
look what happened there.
It's a sad and misfortune event.
I I want the rest of America,
if you will,
and from across the the pond.
To understand that we are we,
the citizens of Glenn County,
are mostly very good people,
hardworking people.
This is an isolated incident.
And don't judge Glenn County
by one group of juvenile teens.
You said
you identified all the individuals
involved in the video and photos.
How many individuals have you
identify? What's that number?
So in the housing incident,
what a hose incident?
I believe there were eleven juveniles.
In the second incident,
there were nine juveniles.
Obviously.
In what do you call it,
some of those are duplicates
or some of the individuals
are at both incidents. Are
there any possible charges
that they could face out of now
we're still working through that.
As of those people who've
beenified the 11 and the nine,
are all of them juveniles or
some of them over the age,
I guess. Over the age of
none of the individuals that we've
identified it would rise to that level.
Individuals from the limit driven
out to the 9 juveniles were
going from the same to now that
were named from the three dropping
checking out at the hospital they were.
Just to clear from misconception that's
online and I apologize if you already
answered this and I missed this,
but a lot of people were posting that
the victim was on the spectrum or
you know had a mental disability.
Is that something that's true?
I just want to see if you can Fact Check it.
So we have interviewed the
victim as well as his family.
There is no information that we've
been provided to support that claim.
She has the family expressed any
interest in wanting to press
charges at this point? They
are fully cooperative
with this investigation.
What are some of the charges?
If they were to charge,
what would they look like?
What would they charge with
the I? I don't want to speculate it on that.
I want the facts to point where the
facts show and in consultation with
the District Attorney's Office,
will determine where we have enough
probable cause for to support a charge
that's not only chargeable or but it's
also prosecutable and it's winnable.
We've only got time for two more questions.
He's a busy man and we've got to go.
We have a lot of things to take care of.
Can can you tell us how many
search warrants have been
executed and how many locations?
I think that weighs too much,
provides too much information
in regards to the investigation.
I'm not going to release that at this time,
disregarding that, because I think
you probably would like to let
people in this Community know
you are here to speak to them and
answer their questions about this.
And aren't you busy to do that?
You say to those people,
especially those hundreds that
gathered at that vigil the other night,
the Da's office is asking for patience here,
but they remember another case here where
it took 74 days for someone to be arrested.
What do you say to the people in
this community that are so upset
that this took days to come out
into the public and now we're a
week later and they say it arrested
this, this, this event took days to
come out to the public out of respect
for the victims privacy we looked
at that it was requested of us.
And this was a incident that was
isolated that we believe that we had
no other public threat going on.
Is there any surveillance video?
Is there surveillance
from the hospital? Yes,
there is. Is that, is
there clarity to it or is it?
I have not viewed it personally.
The investigators are working with that,
working with the hospital staff on that.
That video has already already
speculated social media,
but that's something that you
all as the Police Department
plan to release on your behalf
or is that something that
I missed your question, the video
of social media has already circulated,
has already speculated on social media.
The video of trends being water
goes with that something that you
all have the Police Department plan
to release from the department. So
once we can, I mean obviously like
you said it's in the in the public
forum on social media, but we're
going to retain what we have here.
You've always get went to Glenn Academy.
Are you going to be working
with the school at all on trying
to address this kind of anger?
We've been working with Chief Rod Ellis,
with the school school police on this
investigation that will be up to the school
as far as what type of actions they take.
Thank you.