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Old Sallie Z. School sold
Campus discussed as a possible home for YMCA
Old Sallie Z -Front View
The old "Sallie Z." school on East Jones Avenue, replaced more than five years ago by the new school of the same name on Cawana Road, now has new owners. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff
The Bulloch County Board of Education recently sold the old Sallie Zetterower Elementary School on East Jones Avenue at Gentilly Road for $1 million to private investors. The campus is being discussed as a possible home for the new Statesboro YMCA, but the organization was not the buyer. Earlier this year, the board authorized Chairman Mike Herndon and Superintendent of Schools Charles Wilson to negotiate final terms for sale of the property.
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Video could play a big role in Kent’s trial for shooting a police officer
Officer’s bodycam recorded gunfire and blood
Anthony Kent with defender
Anthony Kent, right, and his lead attorney, Chief Public Defender Renata Newbill-Jallow, left, react to a comment from one of the prosecutors during Monday's pretrial motions hearing. (AL HACKLE/staff)
When and if the case against Anthony DeJarion Kent for the April 16, 2024 shooting of a Statesboro police officer goes before the jury, a central part of the evidence will likely be video from officers’ body-worn cameras. Judge Ronald K. “Ronnie” Thompson, during a pretrial motions hearing Monday, said videos from the shooting encounter itself and the police capture of Kent a short time later would be allowed. The judge temporarily left it an open question whether a half-hour audio recording from a Georgia Bureau of Investigation jailhouse interview of Kent in the wee hours of the next morning would be admissible, after a GBI agent testified that Kent appeared to have been under the influence of “the remnants of something” at the time. But while the defense attorneys – Ogeechee Circuit Chief Public Defender Reneta Newbill-Jallow and Public Defender Kirk Cheney – challenged the admissibility of some recorded materials, nobody questioned that Kent shot Advanced Patrol Officer Joey Deloach that evening in the parking lot at Copper Beech Townhomes.
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