Policeman killed, two wounded in Georgia shooting

McBrayer said the incident began when the two sheriff’s deputies went to arrest a criminal suspect in the town of Locust Grove and called for backup when they realized they would have “issues placing him in custody.”

The sheriff said the Locust Grove police officer had just arrived on the scene as backup when the shooting took place. The slain suspect has been identified by authorities but his name will not be released until his next of kin are notified, said Nelly Miles of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.Images on local television showed police tape around two homes in a cul-de-sac of a Locust Grove subdivision.

The brother of the sheriff’s deputy in surgery, a pastor at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church in the town of Griffin, told local WSB-TV that he had been struck by a bullet that went through his body armor and struck a lung. The second deputy was listed in fair condition.