A veteran police officer was shot and killed while trying to serve a warrant in suburban Atlanta, officials said Thursday.
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The officer and a suspect at the Villages on the River apartment complex were both wounded Thursday after gunshots were exchanged.
Riverdale City Manager E. Scott Wood said the officer was struck in the mid-torso and arm. A suspect inside one apartment ran out the back door and into the path of a Riverdale police officer.
Riverdale police officers were assisting Clayton County police with an operation at an apartment complex in Riverdale late Thursday morning, Riverdale police Assistant Chief Michael Reynolds said at a brief news conference. Register announced around 2:15 p.m. that officer had succumbed to his injuries despite emergency surgery.
Spivey says the officer was a member of his command staff and typically did not wear a bulletproof vest.
The suspect, whose name was not released, was taken to Atlanta Medical Center and is in critical condition, Vasquez said.
The shooting suspect was shot by police and is in critical condition.
In 2004, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Barney became the first African-American to serve as Riverdale’s police chief when he accepted the interim position after the retirement of Mike Edwards.
According to authorities on the scene, police were serving a no knock drug warrant at the complex and the officer was shot during the raid.
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Barney’s body is at GBI headquarters, where an autopsy will be performed Friday morning, agency spokesman Scott Dutton said.
