Multiple Reports of Police and Fire Dept at S. Candler and Kirk Rd
Decatur Metro | July 3, 2013
Receiving multiple reports of police and fire departments out in force at S. Candler and Kirk Rd.
Chris sent in this pic.
Receiving multiple reports of police and fire departments out in force at S. Candler and Kirk Rd.
Chris sent in this pic.
Latest from Decaturish
Pat
At Home in Decatur
At Home in Decatur
lyn menne
TomL
brianc
smith
GreenTea
Michael
spreak
spreak
DEM
Monty
Bullseye
Jeff of maps and bik…
Based on an email on the Oakhurst listserve…the police were chasing someone who carjacked a woman in downtown decatur this morning. This is apparently where the chase ended…
Yes this is where he flipped the car. He was caught. The car was a late model burnt orange SUV with a City Schools of Decatur magnet. Walking the dog, I saw the aftermath. Police scooping up debris, flipping the car back over, and the car owner going through the car to retrieve items like 2 car seats and other things. Don’t thing she was in the car when it flipped, she may have been brought there after it was all over.
What is happening to our city?!?!
Here’s my idea. So, it’s probably a bad one. Candler St. and Columbia Dr. create a quick getaway for all these crimes. You can break into a home, steal a few things and be out of Decatur in 3 minutes or so.
We need to change the criminal’s mindset that these are easy crimes. They need to fear Candler and Columbia.
Let’s try this:
• random roadblocks on Candler and Columbia at various times of the day…10 in the morning, 11 at night, make them truly random, keep criminals guessing
• make both of these streets speed traps. drivers fly down these streets currently. if criminals were in constant fear of getting a speeding ticket they’d be less apt to come into Decatur
So then Decatur would be Mayberry meets Berkeley meets East Germany?
Not quite checkpoint Charlie
I think you’ve got the right idea, writer. Going to dinner last night with my son, we went through a road block at Oakdale and La France (APD Edgewood neighborhood). There were 5 patrol cars and they were really working the intersection quickly and efficiently (it’s possible they were looking for someone). After dinner about an hour later, they were all gone except for one patrol car and a tow truck with a Wrangler in tow.
+1 WriterChad….and I live on South Candler.
When I was at home in December & found a man forcing entry into my home (on a Monday morning when my two small children were home with me), the police responded immediately. Problem is (in my opinion), even though I told the 911 dispatcher an exact description of the suspect and his exact location/direction of movement (right down Candler toward Atlanta….as Chad stated), all the police came to my house. I know this because I attempted to follow the suspect (not smart, I know, but I wanted to watch from a distance so we’d know his location & would never have approach him) and I did not see one police officer circling the area. When I returned home, I found six police cars at my house. I’m no police officer & hind sight is always 20/20, but I felt frustrated that they were all at my house despite me clearly telling them where to look for this jerk. It was wonderful that they arrived so quickly at my house, but I wish some of them had been looking around the neighborhood. I will say that a watchful neighbor did report a suspicious man on the street behind us, but unfortunately I did not ID him as the suspect. I’m thankful that someone was watching and reported suspicious behavior.
Additionally, Decatur PD found a blood sample where the guy tried to enter our house. Evidently the GBI is so backed up that we still haven’t heard anything about a DNA match. This happened 7 months ago. Could this be the same guy who is committing these other crimes? I realize more significant crimes take priority, but seven months is a long time.
Sickening. Hopefully it’s related to the others and brings this mini-crime wave to an end. Could have been any family in Decatur and thank God kids weren’t in the car?
mayor has nothing to say? sad,frustrated, and unacceptable.
All the reports say the carjacking happened in “downtown Decatur”. Can anybody pinpoint it? That’s more important to know than where the car flipped.
The address I heard was 201 Swanton Way.
I was told (therefore this goes in the rumor bin) it occurred at the print shop parking lot located across from the DeKalb’s Maloof Building and that two County employees followed the stolen vehicle. The county vehicles are white, and a white pickup truck is in the crash photo.
That sounds right as 201 and 205 (the print shop) share a parking lot. Interesting to hear that county employees followed the stolen car.
Then kudos to county employees if true.