- Authorities confirmed a manhunt and shooting in Georgia on Monday.
- The chase and the shooting have so far left three officers wounded, one gunman killed and another arrested.
- They report that one of the officers was shot in the head.
An intense persecution and shooting in Georgia so far left three officers injured, a suspect killed and another detained, local authorities confirmed on Monday morning, according to various media outlets.
Quoting the authorities, the local newspaper The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that three officers from the Atlanta metropolitan area were injured Monday morning after a police chase entered Carroll County and a passenger fired multiple rounds with a rifle.
Chase and shooting
According to the aforementioned outlet, two officers were shot and a third crashed into a utility pole after being hit by bullets during the chase, Carroll County Sheriff Terry Langley said during a press conference. One suspect was killed by police and the second was detained, he detailed.
The officers – a Georgia State Patrol officer, a Carroll County sheriff’s deputy and a Carrollton police officer – are being treated at metropolitan Atlanta hospitals, Langley said. But his health conditions were unknown.
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Agency join the chase
The chase was started by the Georgia State Patrol in Bremen and ended in the Georgia 61 area, near Flat Rock Road, Carroll County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Investigator Ashley Hulsey told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Several local agencies were involved in the event when the persecution entered the Carroll County area, including the sheriff’s office and the police in Carrollton and Villa Rica, Hulsey told the local newspaper AJC.
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They control the situation after chase and shooting
According to the AJC report, by 9:00 in the morning there was no longer any threat to the public after the chase and shooting that broke out in Carroll County, Georgia.
Ashley Hulsey had mentioned earlier that she did not know the health of the wounded officers and that it was not yet known if anyone else was injured in the chase and shooting that unleashed on Monday morning.
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An alleged gunshot to the head
The newspaper The Sun He also reported this morning on the persecution and shooting in Georgia, noting that one of the wounded officers was shot in the head during the confrontation.
According to a report published by The Sun, in a shooting in Carroll County “an officer was shot in the head and two other police officers were injured” in the police chase in Georgia.
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Wounded in pursuit and shooting
The sheriff’s office said officers were called to the scene at 4:30 a.m. to pursue a vehicle. Later, a spokesman for the office confirmed that two policemen were injured by gunshots and that the extent of the injuries to a third person was unknown.
According to the local radio station NewsTalk 1330 WLLB cited by The Sun, the persecution started in Bremen and reached Carrollton. Shots were reportedly fired and one officer was shot in the head, but he was reportedly “able to speak” after being wounded. The image for the Facebook post was taken from WSB-TV 2.
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Seattle shooting injures 2-year-old boy
On the other hand, a tragedy reached a family when a shooting in a Seattle shopping center left a child in critical condition and two more people injured. So far no arrests have been reported for the aggression, according to information from news portals such as The Sun y Fox News.
The events took place last Sunday around 3.30 in the afternoon, outside a store known as Autozone, which sells spare parts for vehicles. Authorities are investigating the event and looking for the suspect. At first it was said that it was a girl and three men injured, but later two men were corrected, but the sex of the minor has not been revealed with accuracy.
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They look for a suspect
The person responsible for the shooting in the shopping center managed to flee on foot and the police practically launched a hunt to find him and have asked any witness for information that allows them to find his capture, however, so far nothing is known about him.
Investigators in the case do not have a clear description of what the suspect is like, nor measurements, complexion, skin color or the clothes he was wearing at the time of the attack, making it difficult to search the area of the Seattle shooting where a child was left in critical condition. To know more about this event, read this news.
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