Atlanta, GA
Driver dies after being shot by plain clothes officer intervening in road rage dispute, police say
Officer opens hearth responding to highway rage incident, police say
Atlanta police say an officer in plain garments on patrol noticed a girl on prime of a automobile alongside West Peachtree Avenue close to sixteenth Avenue. The officer went to intervene, however ended up taking pictures the person concerned, police say. The case is now below investigation by the GBI.
ATLANTA – West Peachtree Avenue on the sixteenth Avenue intersection in Midtown Atlanta was utterly blocked and was against the law scene Tuesday night. This after police say a plain garments officer tried to intervene in some kind of dispute on the roadway. Police say that officer was pressured to open hearth, killing one of many drivers.
Atlanta police say further officers have been dispatched simply after 8 p.m. to the intersection following the taking pictures. Police say it began just some minutes earlier when an APD Zone 5 officer working an task in plain garments noticed one thing uncommon between the drivers of a white Mercedes-Benz and a white Tesla.
“Whereas patrolling the streets, he noticed an incident involving two autos. There was an incident the place there was an occupant on the surface of one of many autos that was thrown off the automobile,” stated Atlanta Police Deputy Chief Charles Hampton Jr. “The plain garments officer tried to have the motive force cease.”
A criminal offense scene investigators takes photos of a white Mercedes-Benz and surrounding roadway after police say a plain garments officer was pressured to open hearth throughout a highway rage dispute alongside West Peachtree Street close to sixteenth Avenue in Midtown Atlanta on O (Rob DiRienzo / FOX 5)
Police say whereas the motive force was stopped, there was some kind of battle.
“That escalated to the place the officer discharged their weapon,” Deputy Chief Hampton stated.
It was not instantly clear if both of these concerned have been armed.
“Proper now, we now have not discovered a weapon, however we additionally haven’t processed the automobile,” stated Deputy Chief Hampton. “That will likely be left as much as the GBI.”
West Peachtree Avenue in Midtown Atlanta was blocked after a report of a taking pictures on Oct. 25, 2022. (FOX 5)
A person, solely recognized as being in his 30s, was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital the place he died.
“There may be the feminine, who’s in her late 20s, she’s at present steady at Grady,” stated Deputy Chief Hampton.
Investigators consider the 2 people concerned within the dispute knew one another.
“It simply escalated to the place there the place a feminine obtained on prime of the automobile and the opposite driver drove off,” stated Deputy Chief Hampton.
This picture, which has been blurred in order to not present any potential victims, seems to indicate against the law scene on the intersection of West Peachtree Avenue and sixteenth Avenue in Midtown Atlanta on Oct. 25, 2022. (Used with permission)
A Midtown resident despatched movies of the scene displaying the intersection, which additionally feeds into the MARTA Arts Heart Station, blocked. It was not instantly clear if the incident was impacting MARTA service.
No phrase on when the highway would reopen to visitors.
The GBI has been requested to research the officer-involved taking pictures. That is the 96th officer-involved taking pictures the GBI has been requested to research this 12 months.
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