Name : GRIMMETTE, JOEL Race : Black Gender : Male Height : 5 11 (1.80 m) Weight : 155 lb (70 kg) Hair Color : Black Eye Color : Brown Booking Number : 1920877 Arresting Agency : Georgia State University Police Department Current Facility : N/A Booking Date : 10/28/2019 Release Date : N/A SO Number : P01105172 Address : Atlanta, GA 30303-3670 Natasha and Eric Trethewey. Highway 49, rerouted and expanded after WWII, long ago cut the community in half. Hed been the first police officer on the scene that morning in 1985, and hed thought about Tretheweys mother every day in the decades since. 1908, 68 L.Ed.2d 420 (1981), Plaintiffs have no 1983 action since adequate state law remedies exist. Mugshot - A photograph of usually a person's head and especially face; specifically : a police photograph of a suspect's face or profile." Officer Renaud circulated information about the incident and made periodic surveillance of Gwendolyn Grimmette's apartment complex during his shifts from June 1 to June 4. ACCUSATIONS AND EVERYONE IS PRESUMED INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY IN He knows his pay isnt equitable with that of others at his job, and not commensurate with his years at the company, so he keeps looking for other work and struggling to provide for hisfamily. The Task Force issued its report in February, 1986. LaTonya Austin, a 43-year-old Cincinnati grandmother, is facing murder charges in the death of her two-year-old granddaughter, after allegedly striking the child and hiding her body in a cooler. He'd just been released from prison where he'd spent 12 months for a previous attempt on her life. The parties dispute whether or not the DeKalb County police promised to protect Gwendolyn Grimmette and made assurances which caused her to remain in her home the night of June 4 and early morning of June 5, 1985. Joe was ten years old in 1985 when his father, my stepfather, murdered our mother. Trethewey has spent much of her career studying tragedies of both national and personal scale, and her seventh book, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir, is no different. SIMPLY PUT: IF THE COURTS SAW FIT TO EXPUNGE But academic life has a way of washing you up in Nineveh, particularly when youre half of an academic couple, and in 2001, she began teaching at Emory University in Atlanta and living within walking distance of campus, in neighboring Decaturfar enough that she could avoid the neighborhood where her mother had died, but not far from the DeKalb County Courthouse, where Grimmette had been sentenced. Data provided to our visitors is estimated and may not be accurate. Joel T Grimmette Jr Current Address: DGSB Memorial Dr, Stone Mountain, GA Past Addresses: See available information Phone Number: See available information Email Address: See available information UNLOCK PROFILE Contacts Locations (1) Family Social Court (17) And More Phone & Email We found 2 people named Joel T Grimmette Jr. Including but not limited to; a traffic stop, citation issuance or initial investigation of alleged crime scene. They were here only six months when fire gutted the house. The fire found an almost romantic route: straight up the open grand staircase and down the hall, up more stairs to the third-floor landing outside Tretheweys and Gadsdens offices, where the firefighters finally stopped it. I can only imagine that in the midst of all that devastation and loss did my brother finally make a desperate decision: when someone hed known a long time asked him to transport and deliver four ounces of cocaine, he did. A poet is not one to simplify grief. Create a free family tree for yourself or for Joel Grimmette and we'll search for valuable new information for you. When the producer working on this project, Lu Olkowski, talked to a reporter at a local newspaper about walking or driving through North Gulfport to meet and interview residents, he told herassuming dangers shed face there as a white womanno good could come of that. Still, it is the place I consider my home, and the people in it, my people. Im from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, so seeing a lake that looks like an ocean is great to me.. wrong mis in Mississippi. For latest case status, contact the official Law Enforcement Agency which originally released the information. She acknowledges that writing Memorial Drive was far from cathartic for her, but thats not to say the pain involved in revisiting these pivotal events isnt without significance: Even my mothers death is redeemed in the story of my calling, made meaningful rather than merely senseless. FAIR PROCESS FOR ALL. Tamara Jones is my cousin by marriage. This memorial website was created in memory of Rod Robbie, 83, born on September 15, 1928 and passed away on January 4, 2012. Writing this, she says of her memoir, has brought everything up to the surface more. The initial inquiry is whether a constitutional right to police protection exists as, if there is no such right, Plaintiffs have no cause of action. Joel Grimmette is a former professional ice dancer. MUGSHOTS.COM DOES NOT PROVIDE CONSUMER REPORTS AND IS NOT A CONSUMER Starkville, MS, Copyright 2023 by Mississippi Writers and MusiciansWebsite by Kathy Jacobs Design & Marketing, LLC. View the profiles of people named Joe Grimmette. 553, 62 L.Ed.2d 481 (1980), the Supreme Court recognized that government officials are not liable under 1983 for the failure to provide police protection unless some special relationship with the victim exists. Thus, the people whose stories I considered were literally and figuratively my ownkinfolks. Defendants' motion for summary judgment is GRANTED. In Wright, the plaintiff, a rape victim, brought a 1983 action based on the defendant's alleged suppression of information regarding prior rapes in order to protect business activity. Her photo graces the books cover, her own writing is powerful, and Trethewey has painted her in all her complexity. In the year leading up to Katrina, my brother fixed up the shotgun houses that had been for so long in various states of disrepair. Mugshots.com makes every effort to insure the accuracy of information posted on this website. In 1985, Grimmette entered pleas of guilty to charges of malice murder, kidnapping with bodily injury, aggravated assault, terroristic threat, and two counts of burglary in connection with the killing of his former wife, Gwendolyn Grimmette; the State did not seek the death penalty. Geographic Field(s): American History, Since 1900 Thematic Field(s): Political and Policy History; African Diaspora and African American History Principal Research Interest(s): 20th-century African American history Finally, Defendants argue that under Parratt v. Taylor, 451 U.S. 527, 101 S.Ct. Audiovisual material about Trethewey includes television and radio interviews on programs such as "The News . "Mugshot unavailable": A mugshot may or may have not been taken by authorities. Later that night, she saw news footage of herself entering the building. The following year, after he was released from prison, Grimmette murdered Gwendolyn. In the summer of 1983, Joel came to the football stadium to find Natasha, who was a cheerleader for her high school team. In representing clients of the Council for Battered Women during the past five years, Mr. Sweet has handled between 50 and 100 domestic abuse cases in DeKalb County. He had a son, Silas, with Kelley Shinn, a resident of Ocracoke, North Carolina. ABOUT CONSUMER CREDIT, EMPLOYERS, INSURANCE, TENANT SCREENING, OR The police had been staking out the building that night, but for unclear reasons the officer on duty left early in the morning, giving Grimmette the opportunity to approach. Even now, it is a place that outsiders assume to be dangerous or insignificantrun-down and low-income, a stark contrast to the glittering landscape of the post-Katrina beachfront with its bright lights and neon bouncing off the casinos onto the water. In 1985, Grimmette entered pleas of guilty to charges of malice murder, kidnapping with bodily injury, aggravated assault, terroristic threat, and two counts of burglary in connection with the killing of his former wife, Gwendolyn Grimmette; the State did not seek the death penalty. Arrest or booked:An arrest is the act of depriving a person of his or her liberty usually in relation to the purported investigation or prevention of crime and presenting (the arrestee) to a procedure as part of the criminal justice system. Get Joel Grimmette's contact information, age, background check, white pages, resumes and CV, public records, social media profiles, skilled experts, news, phone numbers & home addresses, arrest records, publications and memorials Im reminded of a passage from Memorial Drive, one in which Tretheweys mother, who finally has a plan and the support to leave Grimmette, comes to a teenage Natashas room and tells her: Put everything you want to take with you in the front of your closet and stacked on your dresser. From the very beginning it's clear something is wrong. More than four decades later, Trethewey, 47, sits in a corner. He had three sisters and one brother: Sherry Caldwell, Joy Trethewey, Cathy Richards, and Stephen Trethewey. Defendants contest the use of Mr. Sweet's testimony and the Task Force Report to show DeKalb County custom or policy. I listened to Tretheweys book on Audible and found it well written and moving. TO BE CLEAR: WE DO NOT ACCEPT PAYMENT FOR This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions. United States District Court, N.D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png. Looker Studio turns your data into informative dashboards and reports that are easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable. He was convicted of criminal trespass and sentenced to serve twelve months in prison. Find Grimmette stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. Theyll want to ask about everything that wasnt on the page. The tragedy left Trethewey with what she calls a wound that with never heal. He was pronounced dead at a local. Joel Grimmette completed his prison sentence and was released in 2019.] Her first work of creative nonfiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, was released in 2010, five years after the disastrous Hurricane Katrina. Official Record was collected Even before the chance encounter with the officer in Decatur, her work was often about her mother. To put his name in print, to place it in the contextpubliclyof my own history, is to attach myself to the name of a murderer, to a past I thought I could put behind me. Facebook gives people the power to. Join Facebook to connect with Joe Grimmette and others you may know. In recent years, as developers have acquired land in the community for commercial purposesas the city has redistricted homesteads as commercial rather than residential propertymany elderly citizens have lost their homes. I could tell you, but I wanted people to see her in action.. While in college at Kentucky State, Trethewey met social worker Gwendolyn Turnbough, who was also a student at Kentucky. Poet Laureate discusses her decision to tell her mother's story in prose, in her new book, "Memorial Drive," and her feelings about the destruction of Confederate monuments. She had just completed her freshman year at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, at the time . At only $250 a month, the rent was affordableparticularly for the low-income residents who relied on a small disability check for their income, or for the young mother making a living cleaning rooms at a motel on Highway 49. He hit me once about the head. Trethewey had gotten out of the home and was finishing her freshman year at the University of Georgia when she got the call that her mother, who had recently managed to divorce Grimmette, was dead; Grimmette had shot her in the parking lot outside her apartment building. Just. Part of me was somehow still inside, no matter how long I had been away, and I could not remove myself from the story. Joel Grimmette had a history of inflicting serious physical abuse on Gwendolyn Grimmette both during the marriage and after their divorce in 1983. While its true that she was keeping Joel on the phone to elicit examples of his homicidal rage, these transcripts also show her endless patience as she tries to convince her ex-husband to commit himself to a mental hospital. They ultimately divorced while Natasha was young; her stepfather, Joel Grimmette, murdered her mother in 1985. INFORMING THE PUBLIC OF ARRESTS AND TO HOLD LAW ENFORCEMENT The new poems in her 2018 collection, Monument: Poems New and Selected, came out of writing this memoir. Still, he is quick thinking and shrewd, and his mocking playfulness has an edge of wisdom to it. They tore it to shreds, she says. Memorial Drive also makes use of primary sources. Years later, when it seemed the worst was behind him, Joe began to take over the family businessmanaging the rental property my grandmother owned in the community. She is constantly in and out of danger of losing the house after having taken out a small sub-prime mortgage to pay for some much-needed repairs. His wife outshone him in both intelligence and accomplishments, but she played down her superiority in an effort to keep Grimmettes mental and physical abuse somewhat in check. The only architectural detail inside the house to survive the fire is the living rooms ornately carved wooden fireplace. The mugshots and/or arrest records published on mugshots.com are in no way an indication of guilt and they are not evidence that an actual crime has been committed. The family, including Trethewey's younger half-brother, also named Joel, was subjected to years of psychological, emotional, and physical abuse at the hands of her stepfather. The Police Subcommittee first recommended that the County establish a crisis intervention project to further assist police in handling domestic violence. The nation's former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Trethewey turns tragic details about her mother's life and death into a journey of discovery, meaning and understanding. Natasha TRETHEWEY; Joel Thomas Grimmette III, a minor by and through Natasha Trethewey, his next friend and guardian of his property; and the Estate of Gwendolyn T. Grimmette, deceased By Rebecca MakkaiPhotography by Lucy Hewett, 2020 Chicago magazine / A Chicago Tribune Media Group website. For a year or so after Katrina hit, there was at least work to be had on the coast. Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir (2020) is the second nonfiction work by Natasha Trethewey. Plaintiffs have submitted affidavits of friends of Gwendolyn Grimmette, Jim and Sherry Masaschi, her boyfriend, Johnny Thompson, and her daughter, Natasha Trethewey, stating that the DeKalb County police knew of the terroristic threats, assured Gwendolyn Grimmette that she would be protected, and that Gwendolyn Grimmette relied on these statements. She went back to college that fall for her sophomore year. Natasha Tretheweys home is not a bad place to spend quarantine. In March, 1984, he was tried for the attempted murder of Gwendolyn Grimmette and for criminal trespass. More about us here. This All rights reserved, The Intimate City: Walking New York by Michael Kimmelman, Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby. He competed in his first ice dancing competition at the age of eleven. Most poignant is a twelve-page document, originally written on a yellow legal pad, in which Gwendolyn documents Joels abuse. Described as a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Wilberger was a graduate of Elmira High School near Eugene, Oregon. Interests. Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. The Pulitzer Prize winner and former two-time United States poet laureate is a Chicagoan by way of Atlanta by way of Mississippi. In Memorial Drive, former U. S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey unearths the past to understand her wounds, especially the June 1985 shooting murder of her mother, Gwen Grimmette, by her former stepfather, Joel, when the author was only nineteen years old, a college student. Although Plaintiffs argue that the statements establish Gwendolyn Grimmette's state of mind in terms of reasonably relying on police protection, there is no independent evidence to indicate that the police made such promises. In 1985, he was a police officer, the first on the scene when Trethewey's mother was discovered dead outside her apartment, with holes in her hand and head (as if the former could have stopped the. Facebook gives people the power to. He patrolled the apartment complex several times during the night until his shift expired at 4:00 a.m. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case. Higher property taxes have forced people out even as property values declined. Plaintiff: Joel T. Grimmette, Jr. The former U.S. One of two historically African-American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have struggled with a lack of civic resources extended to other outlying communities. Published mugshots and/or arrest records are previously published public records of: an arrest, an indictment, a registration, supervision or probation, the deprivation of liberty or a detention. In Atlanta, Trethewey's mother dates and eventually marries a man named Joel Grimmette, who lets slip first his peculiarity and then his malice: he borrows Tasha's hairbrush, leaving it tangled. She was predeceased by her husband, John J. She writes about the wedding in her poem. In this way, hed become part of the revitalization of the community and the efforts to maintain it as residential rather than commercial. Trethewey and I talk about the fact that abusers know subconsciously what they need to threaten and what they dont. When they decided to marry in 1965, they had to elope to Cincinnati, where interracial marriage (he was white and she was Black) was legal; it would be another two years before Loving v. Virginia. Its emotionally exhausting just to read them, even after significant editing from Trethewey. FROM THOSE SAME LAWS. Its the kind of horrid algebra we do in the years of aftermath. At the very least, the publication of the memoir and her settling at last into her Evanston home seem cosmically aligned. Joel Grimmette currently lives in Gulfport, MS; in the past Joel has also lived in Decatur GA. Not the Joel Grimmette you were looking for? See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Joel's . They went to Cincinnati to marry and returned to the South, eventually moving to Mississippi, where interracial marriage was also illegal, a fact referred to in their daughter Natashas poetry. Our links connect to bookshop.org, a website that partners with independent booksellers across the country. A landmark piece of criminal justice reform legislation, passed with the support of. I found it very emotional and I am looking forward to read the book. Joe grew up in North Gulfport, in the household of our maternal grandmother, a loving woman whononethelesssaw the face of her daughters murderer when she looked at him.