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Memorial service held in courtroom
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Nearly 300 courthouse officials and employees gathered in a courtroom for a memorial service late this morning. They all held hands and prayed.
“Everybody is still a little bit lost, a little bit numb,” said Terre McIntosh, court support manager for Fulton County. “We lost some very dear people.”
The workers filled every seat in a courtroom, even filling the jury box and crowding the courtroom entrance to attend a memorial and remembrance service for their slain.
“We are family, and some of us have been together for years,” Doris Downs, a former prosecutor and now Fulton Superior Court judge, told the mourners. She said their colleagues’ murders have generated a “massive outpouring of love and support from across the country, even outside the United States.”
“We’re doing our jobs,” said Superior Court Judge T. Bedford Jackson, “and put ourselves in a position of risk every day. And for that we appreciate each other.”
Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes and court reporter Julie Ann Brandau were shot and killed in the courthouse Friday.
“Rowland was my very dear friend, I loved him, and his loss will leave a deep hole in my heart,” Jackson said.
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