ATLANTA — Several neighborhood streets are shut down after state troopers say a trooper shot and killed a man driving toward him.
It happened on Leslie Street near Moreland Avenue in southeast Atlanta around noon Thursday.
Channel 2’s Tom Jones is there where investigators say it started with a stolen car.
This is the 10th officer-involved shooting this year.
Officers say they tried to get the driver of the stolen car to stop but he got out of his car, got back in and drove towards a state trooper.
That’s when they say the trooper used deadly force.
On the scene of an officer involved shooting near Wylie and Leslie in SE Atlanta. The GBI just arrived to investigate the 10th officer involved shooting this year @wsbtv pic.twitter.com/4OPRX7PHxm
— Tom Jones (@TomJonesWSBTV) January 23, 2020
The GBI has been requested to investigate an OIS in Atlanta involving a Georgia State Trooper. Agents are headed to the scene. pic.twitter.com/MrhxqSulna
— GA Bureau of Invest (@GBI_GA) January 23, 2020
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