Officers cleared in April shooting

Becky Swart Beacham,

60, of Aragon, died Nov. 9, 2017. Good Shepherd Funeral Home has charge of the arrangements.

60, of 3 Ken Court, died Nov. 9, 2017. F.K. Jones has charge of the arrangements.

Karen W. Foster, Barbara Findley Stegall,

82, died Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. Daniels Funeral Home has charge of the arrangements.

Syble Louise Kelley Watkins,

80, of Rome, died Nov. 11, 2017. Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, has charge of the arrangements.

Barbara Findley Stegall, age 82, passed away on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017.

A memorial service will be held at Rome First United Church on Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Mark Sargent officiating. You are invited to greet the family before the service at 10 a.m. in the Wilder Dining Room.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Heyman HospiceCare, P. O. Box 163, Rome, Ga., 30162-0163 or the Rome Federated Garden Club.

SUMMERVILLE — The Chattooga County grand jury cleared the officers involved in a shooting on Halls Valley Road on April 10.

U.S. Marshals and other officers allegedly shot 31-year-old Thomas Zane Campbell, of Walker County, five times — once in each leg; in each arm and once near the right shoulder. Campbell, 31, survived.

Agents Jason Cole, Jason Ladd and Chad Rowe were cleared for shooting Campbell at a home just inside Chattooga County.

No Chattooga County deputy was present when the shooting occurred near the Walker County line.

“Based upon the facts and law presented, we find there is no basis to seek any criminal charges against any officer in this matter and that the officers were legally justified in their actions. We find that Thomas Zane Campbell pointed a firearm at the officers which resulted in the officers shooting Campbell,” the grand jury ruled Monday.

The shooting stemmed from a manhunt by federal agents. Campbell left during the middle of his Catoosa County criminal trail and never returned on March 28. He was on trial for three counts of possession of a firearm by a felon.

The trial continued without Campbell and Superior Court Judge Ralph Van Pelt sentenced him to 13 years in prison.

Campbell’s family said the court system treated their son unfairly.

The Summerville News fiscal 2018 budget, which would have been dispersed to 19 organizations that had applied for funding.

But Boyce removed that funding, and other funding that had been previously earmarked for other nonprofits, prior to commissioners’ vote on the budget in September.

The removal led to more than three dozen representatives of nonprofits affected by the funding removal to address commissioners about the absence of funding from the budget, but commissioners approved the budget without restoring the funding.

Boyce last month said among his justifications for bringing a measure to restore the Collaborative’s funding was that they had been promised funding from the county in a two-year cycle and holding back the money from the 2018 budget affected organizations within the second year of that cycle.

If commissioners approve Tuesday’s measure, groups that would receive county funds would include the Center for Family Resources, MUST Ministries and Safepath Children’s Advocacy Center.

Jon Gargis, Marietta Daily Journal