In fact, only one person — Jewayne Price — was in police custody after calling his aunt, who called 911, and submitting himself to questioning. Two other suspects, who were eventually charged — Marquise Robinson and Amari Smith — would remain at large for two days, according to testimony from Chauncey Duckett, the shooting’s lead investigator for the Columbia Police Department. But at that press conference on April 16, 2022, before a slew of reporters, Holbrook said, “We have three people detained. We have not called them suspects. They are three people that we would classify as people of interest.” At the time of Holbrook’s remarks, Price was the only person in custody, according to sworn testimony from Duckett during Price’s trial and Todd Rutherford, one of Price’s defense attorneys.
“It’s disappointing, to say the least, that a leader of a law enforcement agency is not being forthcoming with the public about what is going on when it involves an incident as major as this was,” Rutherford said. “Especially when my client is being challenged on his veracity, while at the same time the Columbia Police Department was saying things that were not true.” Shortly after the shootout, Price admitted to his involvement in the shooting and told Duckett that he, Robinson and Smith had a vendetta stemming from another shooting that occurred in 2017, where Amon Rice, 17, a friend of Robinson and Smith, was gunned downed during a brawl near a church at a bus stop
The use of generative artificial intelligence will take Singapore’s biggest bank to the next level, predicts Nimish Panchmatia, chief data and transformation officer at DBS.
“In the past, banking has been fairly complicated,” he explains. “GenAI is going to be a ‘game changer’, as it gives us the opportunity to uncomplicate some of that stuff and interact with our customers in normal language, as opposed to technical language.”
GenAI typically produces content using unstructured data such as text, while traditional AI performs certain tasks using structured data, like a set of numbers.
DBS has been using traditional AI for some time, but the addition of unstructured data and GenAI only came in 2023. Since then, the bank has begun more than 240 experiments, of which 20 have progressed to production and implementation stages. The majority of these have been developed in-house.
Using both unstructured and structured data enables the bank to gather more insights about its customers’ preferences so as to target them better and create “hyper-personalised services and nudges”, Panchmatia says. “That’s the Holy Grail. We want to be delivering services that the clients want, not what we think they want.”