ATLANTA — A Georgia police officer is hospitalized and a man is dead after a shooting Monday night in downtown Atlanta Monday night.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was called in to investigate the shooting.
According to authorities, an off-duty Molena, Georgia, reserve police officer was working with ATL Plus, a parking enforcement company in the 300 block of Luckie Street. At around 9:50 p.m., the GBI said he was sitting in his patrol car when he was approached by a man who fired a gun at the officer, hitting him in the neck. The officer fired back, hitting the man, who later died, the GBI said.
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The officer was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Channel 2 Action News said a third person, a woman, had been slightly injured in the shooting.
Agents at the scene found the man who died in possession of a firearm, the GBI said.
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The identity of the man who was killed has not been released.
This is the 80th officer-involved shooting the GBI has been requested to investigate in 2021.