Officers, families threatened since slayings, Americus chief says

Some Americus police officers and their families have been threatened since the Dec. 7 shooting incident that killed one officer and fatally wounded another officer, police Chief Mark Scott said in an article in the Macon Telegraph.

In a news conference Friday, Scott said a handful of people also have threatened the families of slain officers Nicholas Smarr and Jody Smith and Minguell Lembrick, who was suspected in the officers’ killings and later found dead by apparent suicide.

Most of the threats have been by social media, the chief said.

“They cannot hide behind some silly username that they have put up,” Scott said. “They are not anonymous. We can and we will find out who they are, and they will be prosecuted.”

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