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Flintstone man charged after six shots fired at deputies

By Timothy Bradfield

Correspondent

Police say a Flintstone, Ga., man opened fire on three deputies when they went his home to arrest him on a felony probation warrant.

Walker County sheriff’s deputies said Mark Anthony Melton, 51, fired six rounds at them from a handgun from inside his John Thompson Road home late Friday.

“Most of the time people are way more cooperative than firing six rounds,” Maj. Mike Freeman with the Walker County Sheriff’s Office said.