Alright. Good afternoon,
Deputy Chief Charles Hampton, junior.
Before we start about the update,
I'm going to let the chief of Clark
of Landing University just offer
some condolences initially and
then I'll come back to the podium
and talk a little bit about the
case and the update that we have.
Hi Chief Williams Clark,
Atlanta University chief of police and
associate vice president, good afternoon.
Clark Atlanta University continues to
grieve the death of one of our students, Mr.
Dayton Sterling.
A candlelight vigil was held yesterday
on campus planned by a student
government association and other
Clark Atlanta University students
with support from the university.
Like Atlanta University,
increased counseling services to
support all of our students as they
process this unfortunate occurrence.
Again, we will continue to work
with the City of Atlanta Police
Department as part of our collaboration
our regarding the safety of the
Clark Atlanta University campus
and its surrounding areas.
We offer our condolences not only to jaton,
but our baseball team and his
friend and the entire Clark
Atlanta University campus.
Again, I'll Elko our condolences as
well to the family of Jatas sterling.
As everyone know on Tuesday
afternoon we responded to the
area of the 800 block of Beckwith.
We actually got the call from Clark Atlanta
Police Department and when we arrived we
found Jatan deceased from an incident.
What we know about that
incident is that jihad.
I knew the individual.
And who we now have warrants out
and who is in custody recovering
from his injuries as well.
We know that there was some
correspondence prior to on Tuesday
and even as early as Tuesday morning.
And so again,
the work of this fine detected by a high me,
we were able to identify the perpetrator at
Kiante Holloman peoples, 25 years of age.
He was charged with murder,
felony murder, aggravated assault,
and a couple of other charges.
But again, we're here also to let
the community around our AUC center.
This was not a random homicide.
I know the students.
Are alarmed.
But anytime we have any homicide like this,
we try to let the Community
know we're on top of it.
But unfortunately JTAG knew this individual.
There was some,
as I said earlier,
some correspondence.
And so this was not just a random event
that we know that some of the information
that's going around on the campus,
we want to assure the students that has
Chief Williams stands here beside us.
We're in this together and we
have partnerships we patrol.
Together, we communicate regularly about
what's going on around the campuses,
and so the student should,
should feel safe.
But we also asked them when they
see something, to say something,
when something looks out of place,
to call 911.
And we asked them also to be diligent
when they're walking to and fro,
take the headphones off,
put their phones in their pockets,
and be observant and aware of
their surroundings.
But again, unfortunately again,
we were happy to announce
that we made an arrest.
And again,
that just really to let the Community
know that this was not an isolated event.
I know you probably have some questions.
Just remember,
although we made an arrest,
there's still work that
this detective has to do.
We won't go into a lot of specifics because
again there is a opportunity with this.
The suspect has his day in court
and so we won't get to a lot of
specifics about the incident,
but we'll take a few questions though.
You said the suspect was recovering from
injuries as well but is there any indication
that he might have been fired at 2.
But yeah we know that there was
an exchange of gunfire and like
I said but we still it's still
early to figure out enough.
I'm sure the follow up questions
of who had weapons,
who shot who and again it's still early
on to identify there is a another
individual that we know that was in the car.
So we're asking the community if they
heard or know anything else about that.
In the visual we know it,
it is a male to also crack call Crime
Stoppers where they can remain anonymous,
but there was definitely an exchange of
gunfire that occurred inside the vehicle.
You can't give us any a lot of details,
but our understanding previously was that
your tone was not in equal to standing up.
So are you guys saying that a car drove
up on him and then exchanged fire?
So what what we do know at this time is
that there was a vehicle parked in the
parking lot behind the Catholic Center.
We know that Japan got inside that vehicle.
There was some type of dispute that
occurred inside the vehicle and again that.
Still the things that we're still
trying to work out and inside the car,
whatever type of dispute escalated
into gunfire and then that's where
we had the exchange of gunfire.
So everything happened inside of that vehicle
and we were able to recover the vehicle.
And this detective has war said
to to make sure that he's able to
process the vehicle and see whatever
evidence that we can obtain from that.
Is the suspect in a student of the ACC
Center or do you have any information about
no. All I know he's a 25 year old male.
Criminal history out of two different states,
but he is not a student at the UC Center.
Can you spell his name for us?
We'll we'll provide that to you.
Yes. Last questions.
Really feel like you've
answered mostly everything.
Do you have a description on
the car that they were in,
like color or anything like that? Yes,
it was a white Toyota.
We missed you. So then Justin and Bobeth,
and that will be it. Thank you. Is
this for Chief Williams address?
Addressing safety.
Chief Williams, a lot of
students are saying, I don't
feel safe here. They pay thousands
of dollars to go to school here.
They're supposed to feel safe.
This man is from Chicago
and he wanted to graduate and he
does not have that opportunity.
What is the department
doing to ensure safety?
Are you guys beefing up patrols?
Are you adding secure security cameras?
What are you guys doing to effectively
make sure that students will say,
OK, we already do.
We do have security cameras in
the areas around the campus,
not only around the campus,
but also around our surrounding streets.
And the collaboration that we have
with the City of Atlanta Police
Department as well as Fulton County
has increased patrol around that
particular area around the campus.
Because as you know,
Clark Atlanta University sits
right there in the midst of
in the middle of zone one,
which is what we call an open campus.
So in order for our students.
To feel safe as they're walking from
our main campus and the openness of
Clark Atlanta University at the AUC,
we do have increased patrol and
collaboration not only with the
City of Atlanta and Fulton County,
but our other AUC partners as well.
Because there are five different
entities within the UC,
the Atlanta University Center consortium,
is there any reason to believe that
the other individual that you guys are
looking for may have also known him?
At this time it's too early to tell,
but we do know that there was
some communication between the
individuals that we have in custody.
Sorry, I just thought of one last
one and following up with what you
said about the increased patrols,
any changes being made to the
alert system that's being sent
out to kids about incidents that
are happening in the area too?
Yes, every when there's an incident
that affect our campus directly
and alert goes out not only to our
students but to the CU community.
So the changes again because we
already have that institute in place.
So we will continue with sending out those
alert when something directly affects
their Clark Atlanta University campus.
As an on campus,
yes, we sent something out as well.
There was other parameters are
surrounding this particular
incident that delayed the process
for sending that information out,
but the information did
go out to our community.
You're welcome everybody.