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<h2 style="font-size: 180%;">MEDIA ADVISORY</h2>
<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">April 9, 2019</p>
<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 35px; font-size: 120%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: Jeff Pitts
<br />Community Relations Specialist/Public Information Officer
<br />Columbia Police Department
<br />City of Columbia
<br />573.817.5049
<br />policepio@CoMo.gov</p>
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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:145%;"><h3 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 170%;">CPD Interim Chief Jones to host press conference April 9 at 7 p.m. regarding suspicious individual at Gentry Middle School</h3>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - Columbia Police Interim Chief Geoff Jones has scheduled a press conference for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 9. <br /><br />Jones will discuss an incident that took place at Gentry Middle School on Tuesday afternoon where a student reported to school administration that a suspicious individual approached him while he was waiting in front of the school and asked him to come to the car.<br /><br />The press conference will be held on the third floor of the Columbia Police Department, 600 E. Walnut St. Attendees should enter from the Seventh Street side of the building. All members of the media are invited to attend.</div>
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