Atlanta Fire Rescue Department Chief Randall Slaughter is in quarantine pending the results of a COVID-19 test following Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ announcement that she has tested positive.
Slaughter, among the city officials who appeared with Bottoms during a Sunday news conference, was tested for the coronavirus “out of an abundance of caution,” Atlanta Fire and Rescue spokesman Sgt. Cortez Stafford said Tuesday. “He will be in quarantine until his results return and will move forward based on those results.”
Bottoms announced her diagnosis in a Monday social media message.
“COVID-19 has literally hit home,” she wrote. “I have had NO symptoms and have tested positive.”
She wore a mask Sunday but removed it to make lengthy remarks about Secoriea Turner’s shooting death. The 8-year-old died Saturday near the destroyed Wendy’s that had been occupied by armed demonstrators in the aftermath of Rayshard Brooks’ fatal shooting. Two police officers, once since fired, face charges in Brooks’ death.
Written by Tim Darnell of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution