Forsyth deputy home after being injured in shootout; GBI to investigate
A Forsyth County deputy who was injured when a suspect opened fire on authorities during a domestic dispute call is resting at home with his family, officials said Monday.
Deputy First Class Jon Beival was shot twice in the leg with a high-powered rifle when authorities said Elias Alexander Quintero, 35, of Cumming, opened fire on authorities Sunday at his Akins Way home, Forsyth County Sheriff’s Deputy Doug Rainwater said. Beival was treated and released from Northside Forsyth Hospital that day with non-life-threatening injuries.
Quintero was found dead inside his home by a SWAT team robot after attempted negotiations, Rainwater said.
Authorities said they got a call around 3 p.m. about the domestic dispute at Quintero’s home, but were ambushed with bullets.
“Deputies on the scene returned the gunfire in an attempt to stop the suspect,” Rainwater said. In between flying bullets, Beival was struck twice in his lower leg.
Deputies placed a tourniquet on Beival’s leg and he was taken to the hospital.
At about 7:40 p.m, after failed negotiations and spraying tear gas into the home, Rainwater said a robot found Quintero lying on a couch, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
As a standard policy, the two Forsyth County deputies who returned gunfire are on paid administrative leave as the Georgia Bureau of Investigation examines the shooting, Rainwater said. Their names have not been released.
Beival is a six-year veteran with the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office and is assigned to the uniform patrol division.
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