on. and they blocked off this large swath of area here, by the site of that future safety training facility. it appears to also be a police helicopter making its rounds up above, s.w.a.t. vehicles we ve seen going past. and we have video from our affiliate wxia, where we can see large plumes of smoke and that large police presence, too. we are working to get more details as to what is happening here. we have a statement from atlanta police department saying that we are aware of the current events unfolding near the new public safety training center. please give us time to gather information. we will have information for us soon. all of this comes off the week of action, which started just yesterday, by organizers here, really activists that call themselves the defenders of the forest. it s seven days of events, designed to drawn attention to the stock cop city movement. so a protest, a rally.
course when a black bear died of an overdose of cocaine. so we went digging in the news archives and found this real 1985 report from our affiliate wxia. the 200 bound bear fell victim to one of three duffel bags full of cocaine dropped in north georgia and knoxville tennessee three months ago when parachutist and reputed drug smuggler and lutheran plunge to his death. his parachute failed open. he had 77 pounds of cocaine strapped on it. agents found a second bag a short time later. they ran across the dead bear last week while looking for the third bag, what they believed to be the last of the thornton batch. they are probably got an initial rush and perhaps became disoriented and somewhat confused because of the sensation. cocaine acts fairly rapidly in the central nervous system and
prayer. reporter: and, fred, as you mentioned, just adding to the sadness of this tragic event is the fact just hours prior to the crash the team had just celebrated their national championship victory doing a victory parade right here in athens, georgia, a celebration. in fact, we have video from our cnn affiliate wxia showing the team just so happy on top of that fire truck to cheering crowds, just so happy, and now to have this devastating and tragic turn of events here ending in the deaths of two members of this football program is horrible. and, fred, as far as the two other members who were in that car, part of the football program, they were hurt in the crash, are in stable condition. one had minor injuries and we re learning the other had serious injuries. as far as the university, they are offering medical and mental health personnel to just help the team in dealing and processing through the grief of what has happened. fred?
tucker left without buying anything only to return to the store moments later with a handgun. and then he shot the cashier, killing her. the georgia bureau of investigation said the two got into an argument over the mask. here s the store s earn speaking to a cnn affiliate wxia. he had a mask. she just very cautious person so she had asked him to pull up his mask. he refused. and walked out. came back in and did that. a kind, loving human being. we can t understand. there s nothing to understand. the store s security officer, a 30-year veteran of the police department exchanged gunfire with tucker and he was arrested as he tried to crawl out of the front door of the store. he and the sheriff s deputy were taken to the hospital and we re told remain in stable condition, according to authorities. the dekalb county police department is investigating this shooting. the georgia bureau of investigation has been asked to as well. we ve seen plenty of debates
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