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Champaign Police called out its SWAT team to deal with a suicidal black man in Garden Hills. Carl “Dennis” Stewart was the head janitor at Booker T. Washington Elementary School. He was going through marital problems, had separated with his wife, and was suicidal. Police received a call that he was in his car with a gun. Calling out its Armored Personnel Carrier, Champaign police chased him through Garden Hills, a neighborhood with a large population of African Americans. After police cornered him with the SWAT truck, Stewart took his own life.