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Vol. 48, No. 179
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2018
GWINNETT POLICE OFFICER KILLING
Superior Court to get case against suspect
Pretlow faces charges for alleged incident after fleeing
Isaiah Pretlow, 19, of Snellville appeared before a Gwinnett County Magistrate Court Judge alongside his lawyer, Robert Greenwald, right, at the Gwinnett County Jail during a felony calendar appearance Friday afternoon. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)
BY ISABEL HUGHES
appeared before the judge in a black-and-white-striped jumpsuit and ankle shackles alongside his The case against one of the men lawyer, Robert Greenwald, at involved in last month’s shooting the Gwinnett County Jail during death of Gwinnett County Police Friday afternoon’s felony calendar Department Officer Antwan Toney appearance. will move to Superior Court, a Pretlow is charged with aggraGwinnett County Magistrate Court vated assault for allegedly pointjudge ruled Friday. ing a gun at an officer who was Isaiah Pretlow, 19, of Snellville trying to apprehend him following
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Toney’s Oct. 20 death. “Officer Ingle … observes a black male with dreadlocks emerge from the side of a trailer that was parked near 2861 Shiloh Way, and at that point in time, Officer Ingle exits his vehicle and immediately discharges his duty weapon,” Gwinnett County See CASE, Page 5A
Hunter is accused of ‘disrespect’ Hall deputies allege confrontation during funeral procession BY CURT YEOMANS curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com
Gwinnett County Commissioner Tommy Hunter is facing controversy amid allegations that he argued with law enforcement during the funeral procession for fallen Gwinnett Police Officer Antwan Toney. Hall County Sheriff Gerald Couch said Hunter got into an argument with two of his deputies Oct. 24 after the commissioner Tommy Hunter claimed he accidentally pulled into the procession and tried to make the deputies move out of his way so he could pull out of it. The deputies told Hunter that, out of respect for Toney, they could not move until the procession had passed. The deputies had been assigned to stop traffic so the procession could pass through uninterrupted, and Couch said Hunter called him later in the day to lodge a complaint against the deputies. The sheriff, however, is standing behind his deputies. “There was disrespect shown that day, but it was not shown on the part of my officers. It was shown on the part of Commissioner Hunter,” Couch said in a statement. “He felt, and he conveyed to me when he spoke with me on the phone, that basically he was entitled by his position in his county to be able to travel that roadway that day, but the rest of Gwinnett County citizens were showing their respect.” This is the second time in less than two years that Hunter’s actions have stirred controversy. In January 2017, he called U.S. Rep. John Lewis a “racist pig” on Facebook, which prompted months of protests at commission meetings, as well as an ethics hearing and a written reprimand from his colleagues on the county commission. Hunter is appealing the reprimand and challenging the county’s ethics commission, which is an investigative and recommending body only, with hopes of taking the case to the Georgia Supreme Court. See HUNTER, Page 5A
Local law enforcement link arms with South Gwinnett High School football players on the school’s football field before its game against Grayson High School on Friday. Football players from both teams linked arms with law enforcement before the game in honor of fallen Gwinnett Police Officer Antwan Toney and local law enforcement. (Staff Photos: Curt Yeomans)
Saluting the fallen
South, Grayson teams honor Toney before game BY CURT YEOMANS
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SNELLVILLE — Football players from South Gwinnett and Grayson high schools linked their arms with Gwinnett County law enforcement before their game Friday night in a show of unity in response to the death of Gwinnett Police Officer Antwan Toney. It has been two weeks since Toney was fatally shot while responding to a suspicious vehicle call near Shiloh High School on Oct. 20. After both teams ran onto the football field Friday night, they formed two lines on the field with Gwinnett County police officers and Gwinnett County Public Schools officers sprinkled among them.
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Toney. “Here at South, we work hard to fulfill all points of our HARD acronym,” the South Gwinnett announcer told the crowd gathered for the game. “Officer Toney was a prime example of this creed. Hustle, Attitude, Respect and Discipline were shown in every aspect of his work. “He served and protected, and he was committed to accomA banner honoring fallen Gwinnett County Police Officer Antplishing his goals to become wan Toney hangs on the fence at the edge of South Gwinnett High School’s football field during the school’s game against what he dreamed to be.” Toney worked out of the Grayson High School on Friday. Gwinnett County Police DepartThe players, coaches and law As they stood with their arms ment’s South Precinct, which enforcement officers walked to- linked together in a chain, an anSee SALUTE, Page 5A ward each other to form a circle. nouncement was made honoring
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