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, off-duty Molena, Georgia, reserve police officer Dan Wilcox 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.
Officer Wilcox was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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Channel 2 Action News said a third person, a woman, had been slightly injured in the shooting.
The man who was killed has been identified as 25-year-old Jamon Darryl McCall of Lithonia.
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Agents at the scene found McCall in possession of a firearm, the GBI said.
This is the 80th officer-involved shooting the GBI has been requested to investigate in 2021.
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