Atlanta Police are investigating the shooting of a Fulton County Sheriff’s Deputy outside the Greyhound bus station in Downtown on April 24.
According to the incident report, officers responded to 157 Forsyth Street SW just before 6 p.m. in reference to an officer help call. Upon arrival, officers located the deputy who sustained an apparent gunshot wound.
The deputy was alert, conscious, breathing, and was transported to the hospital for treatment. The preliminary investigation indicates that the deputy was struck by gunfire from a moving vehicle and that the suspect(s) fled from the scene immediately following the incident.
The deputy, who has not been named, was transported to Grady Hospital for treatment and was in stable condition after being shot in the leg, Fulton Sheriff Pat Labat said during a news conference.
At the request of the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, the Atlanta Police Department is leading the investigation into the shooting.
The shooting was the second incident Thursday involving Fulton law enforcement .
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a man was shot and killed outside a restaurant in the 3600 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in southwest Atlanta by South Fulton Police Department officers.
Police said a loitering suspect ran from officers and got into a vehicle. When officers pursued him on foot, the suspect produced a handgun and was shot dead by officers. As standard protocol for an officer-involved shooting, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is reviewing the incident.
