Metro Atlanta / State News 8:39 a.m. Sunday, September 13, 2009

Off-duty College Park cop shoots suspected armed robber

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

An off-duty College Park police officer shot a suspected armed robber early Sunday outside a Motel 6 on Old National Parkway, police said.

The suspect, 17-year-old Jeremy Rashad Evans, was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital. His condition was not immediately available.

The officer, whose name was not released, was working a security job shortly before 2 a.m. when he spotted Evans armed with a handgun and heading toward the front of the motel, police said. When the officer ordered Evans to drop the gun, Evans “made a threatening move with the gun towards the officer, at which time the officer shot the suspect,” police said in a press release.

Police believe Evans and two or three others had just robbed a woman staying at the motel. Evans' accomplices fled the scene in a Ford vehicle, police said.

College Park police are searching for the other suspected robbers. The officer was placed on administrative leave while the GBI investigates the shooting.



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