LOCUST GROVE, Ga. (AP) – The killing of a police officer and wounding of two deputies in a sudden, unexpected burst of gunfire has left a Georgia town in shock.
The fallen officer’s wife is expecting the couple’s second baby. The town’s mayor broke down as he spoke about the officer and his family hours after Friday morning’s shooting.
“We just need a lot of prayers for he and his wife and the baby that’s coming into this world without a daddy because of somebody …” Locust Grove Mayor Robert Price said, choking up during an interview. “We got to pray for the two county officers that’s wounded.”
The wounded Henry County deputies were taken to hospitals, and the suspect, identified as Tierra Guthrie, 39, was killed, authorities said.
Gunfire broke out as the officers were serving an arrest warrant about 11 a.m. at a home in Locust Grove, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) southeast of Atlanta, Henry County Sheriff Keith McBrayer said.