Monday night's fatal shooting of a Douglas County man was the 29th police shooting in Georgia this year, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's exclusive database of fatal police shootings.
Credit: Ken Foskett
Credit: Ken Foskett
Details of the shooting are still unclear, but a Douglas County sheriff's deputy shot and killed a man at the Arbor Village mobile home park after a confrontation, police said.
Police initially said the man killed was a suspect in a kidnapping, but family members of the dead man are telling Channel 2 Action News that he was attempting to intervene and diffuse the confrontation. The GBI identified the man killed as Bobbie Daniels; the family gave his first name as Robbie.
According to the Douglas sheriff's department, the deputy was attempting to place a suspect under arrest when Daniels reached for a gun that the deputy had removed from the suspect during the arrest.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating.
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