The GBI is investigating three officer-involved shooting cases from Monday evening that left two people dead, officials said.
In Middle Georgia, a man was shot to death by a Houston County deputy, according to the Telegraph of Macon.
Just after 5 p.m., a woman called 911 and said her husband wasn’t letting her leave the house, the newspaper reported. She wanted to take a trip to Tennessee to visit friends for her birthday, neighbors said.
The woman’s husband slashed three of her car’s tires so she couldn’t go, GBI agent J.T. Ricketson said.
A deputy who responded told the GBI that the woman and her husband were outside the house, which is in the Bonaire area.
Ricketson said the deputy and the woman’s husband “had a conversation” while she went inside to pack some belongings.
“The deputy was speaking with the subject out in the front yard when he suddenly turned around and walked inside the house,” Ricketson said. “The deputy started after him. The subject turned around and had a gun in his hand and the deputy fired a couple of shots.”
The man died from at least one gunshot wound to the chest, according to the Telegraph.
In Brunswick, a man shot by an off-duty officer as he was stabbing a woman has died, according to the Florida Times-Union.
Officer Aldrid Spaulding III responded to a domestic dispute about 7:13 p.m. at an apartment complex in the 2100 block of N Street, police said.
The man who was shot, David Leon Bell, was taken to a hospital for treatment but died from injuries, said GBI agent Stacy Carson.
The stabbing victim, Erica Williams, was in stable condition Tuesday morning, according to police.
In northwest Georgia, a Walker County deputy was stabbed and a suspect was shot, Walker County dispatch told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The shooting occurred about 5 p.m. in Rossville, authorities said. The officer and suspect were taken to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga.
The deputy was identified as J.D. Holland, according to WDEF.com, a Chattanooga television station.
The GBI has investigated 40 officer-involved shootings this year, spokesman Bahan Rich said. The total was 78 in 2016.
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