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The actual protests at the new police training site are not in the Atlanta city limits. It is located in an unincorporated area of neighboring DeKalb county. Atlanta is in Fulton county. Most police presence at the protest site is DeKalb County Police and Georgia State Patrol and the offenders are jailed in DeKalb county and will be prosecuted there.35 people detained after "coordinated attack" at Atlanta's "Cop City" police training site
A protest at a police training center that opponents call "Cop City" turned violent on Sunday, authorities say.
Now APD will have divert more attention and resources to address this.
If he wore thick gloves, and did not cut himself with the knife as he used it on her, and he wore a hat preventing his hairs from falling out at the scene, and if she did not manage to get a fingernail full of DNA, and he didn't spit or ejaculate - then he would not have left trace evidence behind. For touch DNA to adhere, it generally has to be more than just a brush of skin - like a steering wheel or phone or something the killer handled. I can only assume he came prepared, and the whole thing was planned. And I agree with the commenter above who says the rage exhibited in this murder is indicative of a personal crime.
You raise a good question. The rage would possibly indicate something personal, that the killer knew KJ and really hated her. But as you said, why do it in the park? And if it was someone known to her, I would think LE would have made the connections already. So I tend to lean towards the idea that this was someone that was just crazy, and was just looking for any victim to take out their rage/fantasy. Perhaps the killer did leave some DNA, but there is just nothing to match it to yet. Perhaps a transient/homeless, the invisible people of society. But then again, perhaps it was someone that knew Katie, but she really didn't know them. Someone that had a secret and intense grudge against her for some reason. To me, there are just a lot of sort of conflicting things about this case. The horrific brutality of the attack, in a public park ,WITH a dog, is just sooo perplexing to me.
Someone that knew might know, possibly, that someone with a partner at home and a very public job would be hard to find alone and attack. That’s my opinion on why it happened where and when it did.
Possibly because he or she felt justified, all-powerful and the ‘owner’ of Katie’s fate. So nothing could touch him. So far…
Very shrewd points and I agree.
I completely agree with you, but despite the myriad conflicting pieces of information, so many facts point to that rather than a random killer. Unbelievably cruel. I hope so much that she didn’t see her killer before she died and be forced to realize that such venomous hatred was coming to physical light right before her eyes-Katie being an individual with sensitivities and love (and faults, of course)-that would be an incredulously malevolent feeling to take with her, along with simultaneously being hit with “My mom and Ronnie are expecting me, they need me, Emma needs me; OMG, my baby Bowie!!! My friends, my family.”
I think many people agree it wasn’t a serial killer. And I can (see-?) that it’s a possibility that a person simply wanted to hurt and kill a person. It seems that they might choose a person without a dog, but with the bravado the facts support, he/she could have found the dog to be an added bonus.
What a shame, indeed.
100% agree… killer is a psychopath…totally capable of repeating if hasn’t already. Wish there was more being done to reassure those of us who live/work nearby. My thought is…to pull off such a hideous crime in such a well-trafficked area (even at that hour), the killer is very familiar with the park and the surrounding area. Maybe even a neighbor. Scary.
