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A SWAT team in Roswell was serving arrest and search warrants
when a man ran out the back of a house and encountered an
officer, said Police Chief James Conroy at a news conference.
The fleeing man fired a handgun, twice striking the officer in
the chest, before the officer shot back and killed the man,
Conroy said.
The chief said the officer was hit by shrapnel but protected
from more serious wounds by his bulletproof vest.
“It appears the vest has saved his life, but he did suffer
injuries from the incident," Conroy said.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is now leading the inquiry
into the shooting by the officer, as is typical in Georgia.
Officers came to the house looking to arrest a man accused of
firing a gun into the air on New Year’s Eve after being asked to
leave a party. Conroy said that after officers investigated,
they found the man had a violent criminal history.
That's when police decided to call in the SWAT team jointly
operated by four cities in northern Fulton County to serve
warrants, Conroy said. Those were for reckless conduct, firing a
gun on someone else's property and being a convicted felon in
possession of a gun.
Conroy couldn't confirm that the man who died was the person
police were trying to arrest. He said the four other adults in
the house were cooperating with police.
Conroy declined to identify the wounded officer or say which
police department he worked for.
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