HELEN, Ga. -- Authorities said a bank robbery suspect has been fatally shot in northeast Georgia after pulling a fake pistol on sheriff's deputies and a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent.

GBI spokesman John Bankhead said the 44-year-old was identified by photographs as the man who held up a Dahlonega bank Thursday afternoon.

He was traced to a house near the Chattahoochee River in Helen.

Bankhead said the suspect fled across the river when a White County deputy approached him Friday afternoon, and he pulled the "replica" gun when a GBI agent and a Lumpkin County deputy closed in on the other side.

Bankhead said multiple shots were fired and it is not known which one killed the suspect.