Trooper in ICU, shooter dead after raid at proposed APD training facility, GBI says - WSB Atlanta

ATLANTA — A Georgia State Patrol trooper was changeable adjacent Moreland Ave and Constitution Road successful Atlanta Wednesday morning.

Officials confirmed the shooting to Channel 2 investigative newsman Mark Winne.

Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Mike Register said respective agencies were doing a raid adjacent a projected Atlanta Police Department grooming installation erstwhile idiosyncratic started shooting astatine them without warning. The trooper was changeable and officers returned occurrence successful self-defense, according to the GBI.

The GBI says the raid was to region protesters who were astatine the installation illegally.

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The idiosyncratic who changeable the trooper was changeable and killed by instrumentality enforcement officers. The shooter’s individuality has not been released.

Officials accidental the trooper is unchangeable and had country astatine Grady Memorial Hospital. He was changeable successful his pelvic area.

“We would conscionable similar to inquire for everyone’s thoughts and prayers for his household during this hard time,” GSP Colonel Chris Wright said.

A Channel 2 Action News photographer astatine the country saw officers with their guns drawn and trained astatine the woods. According to the GBI, 4 radical person been arrested.

Register said gathering the grooming halfway is simply a large happening for the city, but helium supports the close to protestation adjacent though helium feels protesters had gone implicit the enactment respective times.

“They’re endangering the assemblage and the citizens successful this area,” Register said.

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Winne learned that this incidental was related to ongoing protests of the projected grooming facility, which protesters person nicknamed “Cop City.” The installation has been arguable to many.

Protestors accidental the installation would beryllium atrocious for the assemblage and for the environment. The projected installation would instrumentality up an 85-acre crippled of onshore disconnected of Key Road successful the largest municipality wood successful metro Atlanta.

Last month, protestors had to beryllium forcibly removed from trees successful the country of the projected facility.

The GBI says the probe remains progressive and the protestor who died has bot been identified.

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