Atlanta, GA
Atlanta police release new details on 23-year-old Buckhead man’s disappearance
ATLANTA — Atlanta police released new details Friday regarding the disappearance of a 23-year-old Buckhead resident.
According to a missing persons report obtained by Channel 2 Action News, 23-year-old Jordan Kustas was reported missing by his mother, Lara Harrison, on Monday from his home on Morosgo Drive.
Harrison told police the last time she heard from her son was on Nov. 15, when she received a text from an unknown phone number claiming to be from him. She added that Kustas was on her phone plan and the last recorded activity from his phone was on Nov. 28. The report did not say what the text she received said.
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According to authorities, Kustas drives a 2015 Sante Fe with a North Carolina tag TJV1304. Police discovered that the last hit on traffic cameras was on Dec. 1 on Brookhaven Drive at 8:54 a.m.
The report said that Kustas’ parents had to bail him out several times due to his having a gambling problem. Harrison told police her son owed money to a family friend who was his bookie in North Carolina, but she said that she doesn’t believe he had anything to do with Kustas’ disappearance.
When Kustas moved to Buckhead after graduating from Auburn University, Harrison said he got a roommate at his Morosgo Drive apartment, Ean Russell.
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Russell told police that he and Kustas were friends but not close and hadn’t noticed any weird behaviors in the weeks leading up to his disappearance.
According to the report, Russell told police he believed Kustas was avoiding him because he didn’t pay his share of the rent. Still, he told police he understood why because, in October, he had to pay for a medical procedure.
Harrison told police that her son works as an engineer. However, she and Russell did not know the company’s name and location.
The report added that Kustas never goes anywhere without his dog, Brooks and that he may be with him.
Anyone with information regarding Kustas’ whereabouts is asked to call 911.
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Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff to appear in Atlanta
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, will appear in Atlanta on Tuesday.
Emhoff is set to visit Black-owned small businesses, according to his office.
He’s also scheduled to attend a reproductive healthcare panel with medical providers, students and local leaders.
Emhoff’s visit comes just over a week after Harris visited Atlanta to kick off her nationwide “Economic Opportunity Tour.”
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Atlanta, GA
Man killed in shooting at southwest Atlanta apartment complex, police say
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – A man was killed in a shooting at a southwest Atlanta apartment complex Sunday afternoon, according to the Atlanta Police Department.
The department said officers responded to a person shot at 3041 Landrum Dr. SW., the address of Hidden Village Apartments, around 12:45 p.m.
When they arrived, officers reportedly found a man with multiple gunshot wounds. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
The victim has not been identified and no suspects have been announced.
Investigators are working to determine what led to the shooting.
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Atlanta, GA
Atlanta-Israel police exchange program under fire at Georgia State University march
Atlanta, GA – Over 150 students from Georgia State University and members of the broader Atlanta community converged in Hurt Park downtown Friday, May 3, in a protest against the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
Of primary focus were calls for the end of the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) program, which promotes reciprocal training between Georgia police and Israeli occupation forces, with a particular focus on urban warfare and control of crowds.
The GILEE program at Georgia State University (GSU), funded as a nonprofit through the university foundation, has drawn widespread criticism from activists for its officer exchanges between the U.S. and Israel. Under the auspices of “international cooperation,” police from Georgia and other parts of the United States train alongside the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in brutal crowd control techniques and use of force against protesters. This criticism has intensified amid broader condemnations of U.S. support for Israel’s ongoing genocidal war in Gaza.
The protest drew active participation from a range of groups including GSU Students for Justice in Palestine, Black Alliance for Peace Atlanta, Dissenters, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, and the Atlanta Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.
Erica Kadel of the Atlanta Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression opened the protest with a fiery address to the crowd. Kadel was one of the 28 people arrested by police at Emory University on April 25 while protesting the genocide in Gaza. Energizing the crowd with the chant, “From Palestine to Emory, stop the U.S. war machine,” Kadel linked the struggle against local police militarization with global peace efforts.
“A lot of naysayers say that what we do here could not possibly have an impact in Palestine,” said Kadel. “We know how intimately linked our struggles here in Atlanta and in Palestine are – a prime example being the GILEE program. If people still don’t get it, all you have to do is look at the videos, photos and statements coming from individuals and organizations in Gaza and the West Bank thanking the U.S. student encampments. In fact, Bisan Owda, a journalist in Gaza said, ‘The voice of U.S. student encampments is louder than the bombs in Gaza,’ and that should give us heart that what we do here matters.”
The protesters then marched through the largely urban-based university campus before arriving at the GSU complex that hosts the GILEE offices. There, Atlanta police blocked the crowd from getting close to the building and attacked them. Officers ripped signs and umbrellas out of people’s hands and threw objects forcefully into the crowd. Referring to the Atlanta Police Department, the crowd chanted during these attacks: “APD, KKK, IDF, They’re all the same!”
As the demonstration dispersed, student activists called for further protests at GSU in the coming days.
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