The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into an overnight shooting involving a middle Georgia sheriff’s deputy and an armed man.
Just after 10 p.m. Thursday, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call in reference to possible shots fired in the 100 block of Prentice Place in Macon, GBI spokeswoman Nelly Miles said Friday.
When a deputy got to the scene, he saw a man standing near a small pickup truck and asked to see the man’s hands. That’s when the deputy noticed a gun in the man’s hand, Miles said.
“The deputy observed the individual raise the gun towards the deputy and then the deputy fired one shot, striking the individual in the right arm,” she said.
The man was taken to Navicent Health Medical Center in Macon, where he was treated for non-life threatening injuries and released. He was taken to the Bibb sheriff’s office on an aggravated assault charge. The deputy was not injured during the incident.
When the investigation is complete, the GBI’s findings will be turned over to the Bibb District Attorney’s Office.
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