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SI Daylipt Saving pnie Begins MaichMe)-^ Turn clocks ahead 1 hour Saturday, March 13,2010 THOMASVILLE Coming Tuesday Rep. Hugh Holliman host Small Business Forum at DCCC. Find it in Tuesday's Times. 119th Year-No. 70 50 Cents WWW. tvilletimes. com Man shot after drawing gun on officers BY ELIOT DUKE staff Writer Two Thomasville Police officers were involved in a shooting Friday afternoon following a traffic stop at the intersection of Julian Av enue and Main Street under neath Hundley Bridge. The suspect, whose name was not released, was trans ported to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and placed in intensive care for what authorities say is non-life threatening injuries. Both officers have been placed on administrative leave pend ing an investigation. “Right now, it’s stHl in the preliminary stages,” Thom asville Police Department Chief Jeff Insley said. “It was a traffic stop and there was an officer-involved shoot ing. We notified the State Bu reau of Investigation as part of our protocol and they are handling the investigation. Once they finish we will do our internal review to make sure we did everything in the right way.” Neither officer, whose names also were not released. was injured during the shoot ing which occurred around 4:15 p.m. TPD received a call from a concerned driver re garding a white. Ford van driving erratically. Accord ing to a TPD press release, officers proceeded to inves tigate the reason for the er ratic driving when shortly after they encountered the driver pulling a gun on one of the policeman. The officer fired his weapon in self de fense, shooting the suspect. One of the officers was in a See OFFICERS, Page A4 Thomasville Po lice investigate the scene of a traffic stop that ended with a man being shot by police after drawing a weap on. TIMES PHOTO/ ELIOT DUKE TIMES PHOTO/ELIOT DUKE Brown Middle School science teacher Tricia Creasey helps two students as the analyze blood samples Thursday during the math and science department's crime scene investigation program. HANDS-ON LEARNING Brown Middle School students use science to solve crime BY ELIOT DUKE Staff Writer Who kidnapped the principal at E. Lawson Brown Middle School? That’s the question seventh grade students have been trying to figure out this week as part of the school’s Crime Lab pro gram. For the past seven years, BMS students get the chance to experience the latest forensic techniques used by professional crime scene investigators by ana lyzing evidence in a wide array of different methods. On Wednesday, students came to school and discovered principal Randy Holmes was kidnapped. With only a few footprints, blood samples and hair follicles to work with, the three-day objective was to find out who did it. TIMES PHOTO/ELIOT DUKE Two Brown Middle School students analyze evidence under a microscope Thursday to help find the principal's kidnapper. “The reason why we decided to do the CSI was because the kids right now are really interested in the crime shows on TV,” Tricia Creasey, a seventh grade science teacher at BMS who started the program, said. “We study in sev enth grade, science, the human body and genetics. This helps them connect what they’re study ing in school to real life situa tions.” In Creasey’s class on Thursday, students practiced blood typ ing, analyzing samples found at the scene, trying to find a match See LEARNING, Page A6 Disturbed man barricades self inside residence BY ELIOT DUKE Staff Writer Thomasville Police De partment responded to an incident on Ball Park Road Friday night where a disgruntled man bar ricaded himself in his house with his infant chUd, resulting in a two- hour standoff with au thorities. TPD Chief Jeff Insley said the man was expe riencing some hard luck ahd decided to barricade himself in his apartment. The TPD Special Re sponse Team and a nego tiator arrived at the scene and managed to talk the man into surrendering without incident around 8 p.m. Friday night. Dozens of police officers wear ing bullet-proof vests and carrying automatic weap ons, as well a police K-9s, were at the scene during the negotiations. “Some things weren’t going his way,” Insley said. “Today, it all kind of culminated into this. We were fortunate no one was hurt. He worked with us and we managed to get through it.” TPD responded to the See DISTURBED, Page A4 Golf tournament to honor firefighter who lost his battle against cancer BY ERINWILTGEN Staff Writer Rodney Palmer was a fighter. Known throughout the West Lexington Volunteer Fire & Rescue as a good firefighter. Palmer battled with the best of them. But when the rest went home after a hard day’s work. Palmer’s struggle continued — his struggle against cancer. Though Palmer pre vailed after his first diag nosis, cancer returned. The captain, an active member of the fire de partment for 20 years, died on June 21,2009. In his honor, friends and comrades decided to transform the annual golf tournament, held for the last nine years as a fundraiser for Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center’s burn unit, into the first Rodney V Palmer Memorial Golf Tournament. The tour nament wfil be held May 8 at the Lexington Golf Club, and proceeds will benefit Carolina Cancer Services. “We’d just like to have as many golfers as pos sible to come out and sup port the golf tournament and come out and honor Rodney,” said Maurice Hodges, treasurer of the Fireman’s Fund for the department and Palmer’s close friend. And it seems Hodges might get his wish. Caron Myers, executive dmec- tor of Carolina Cancer Services, says firefighters from aU over Davidson County and even from Rowan County wUl be coming for the event. An avid golfer and one of the original organizer of the golf tournament. Palmer was diagnosed with prostate cancer a few years ago. He fought See HONOR, PageAG Community Sponsor Xhomasvillej ^ MEDICAL CENTER Remarkable People. Remarkable Medicine, Today's Weather Few Showers 65/44 Full Forecast Page 2 Weather Opinion What's Obituaries Inside Religion Sports Business Classifieds A2 A5 A6 A8 B1 B6 B6 in M o p in in P O ■o Thomasville, North Carolina • Your Town. Your/times.
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