Don Aaron Quotations

Nobody saw anyone being handcuffed. Officer Gant was moving into a position of cover. He was coming around a planter with a tree in it. His view was partially obstructed when the shot was fired. Sgt. Reed was in the arrest process.

Mr. Overton filed a civil lawsuit on behalf of the family. He is zealously representing them as their advocate. I think it's best that I don't engage in a debate with him over the lawsuit.

When the results of the testing are known, we will be in a much better position to take the next course of action. We have to work through some unique issues in this case, but we know enough about the victim, her circumstances, and the people with whom she was associated. We do not think the circumstances are going to be insurmountable.

If we are made aware of counterfeiting issues, we will do our best to address the problem. If you're going to buy a ticket on the street, you're doing so at your own risk. If the deal sounds too good to be true, 99.9% of the time it is too good to be true.

The at-fault driver has not been determined, so charges have not been filed yet.

We can't do it on every missing adult. In this situation, we had an adult, albeit a mentally challenged individual, who, in the past, had been known to go elsewhere.

The police department's investigation is very much continuing. At this point in the investigation, six female students at Paragon Mills have reported inappropriate contact by the teacher. The police department takes accusations such as this very seriously. In any case such as this we'd ask that anybody in the community who has information about this to contact the police department.

There has been the realization by criminals that, from time to time, persons mail bills and other payment remittances using residential mailboxes. They just hoist the red flag on the box. But while the red flag is an alert to the postman, it is, unfortunately, an alert to certain thieves.

We believe that his statement was credible, and we at this point do not suspect that Jones was involved in the firing of the shots.

We would remind people that the Central Police Precinct is headquartered at the GEC. The police presence will be strong.

At this point in the investigation, there is no indication that he had anything to do with the murders of his wife and daughter.

At this point, this appears to be purely an accident.

The records office was back in business within an hour.

Both Metro and federal law enforcement agencies looked at this case, and it was decided prosecution would occur at the state level. The reviews, I suspect, took some time.

Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.

No arrests have been made, and the investigation is very much still ongoing. This investigation was conducted by the unit of the (Metro) Police Department that concentrates on gambling and organized prostitution. I can't give any more detail due to the investigation continuing. We have not reached a stage where we are ready to discuss specifics of the case.

The officers felt an absolute necessity, given his employment, given the fact that he could potentially back to TSU, that this needed to be investigated fully.

The language was ill-advised. In the opinion of the deputy chiefs, (the change) was not good policy and they directed that revisions be made.

The intelligence information was that this vehicle might be involved with selling guns in public housing.

The father came home, found Anderson in the house with his teenage daughter. (The father) ordered him out of the house, called police and subsequently, Anderson was admonished to stay away from his home and daughter.

I looked at the calls for service, and we didn't get a call about her being missing until 11:18 p.m. Friday. That was 18 hours after she was last seen leaving home for the center.

They were afforded the opportunity to get out of the roadway and they didn't.

The fumes spread from the construction area into the records office. Several employees reported smelling noxious fumes. Several became lightheaded. A few became nauseated.

The driver stayed in her car on the street because she believed he couldn't make it down the stairs, because he was staggering so badly when she first encountered him.

The judges have full authority to exercise discretion. That's why they're there.

You can't fire weapons in urban areas. It is an urban area. Certainly there are places in Davidson County that are extensively wooded. There also are large open fields in Davidson County. I would refer to that area in Bellevue at the movie theater as an urban area.

It is true that Perry March was named as a suspect in this case in search warrant documentation in mid-September of 1996, but to assume or presume that a police officer was with Perry March every second of the day in August and September of 1996 would not be correct.

It was a process that certainly could have been better than it was months ago. I will hasten to add that we have taken steps to drastically improve that process.

However, it is certainly suspicious. Nothing has been ruled out.