BYRON, Ga. — Authorities said the suspect in a shooting in which two Georgia officers were shot while serving a warrant at a home has died.
Two central Georgia police officers have been shot and wounded while serving the search warrant in Crawford County.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent J.T. Ricketson tells local new outlets that a multi-jurisdiction drug task force went at 2:30 a.m. Monday to a home on state Highway 42. Byron officers knocked on the door three times and announced themselves, but no one answered.
Ricketson says the officers went inside the house and an occupant started shooting at them. The officers returned fire and the suspect, a man, was shot multiple times. He died in the home Monday morning .
Ricketson also said one of the Byron officers who was shot was treated and released at a hospital. He says the other officer was more seriously wounded and had to undergo surgery.
