Officials have released the identity of a man suspected in a domestic violence incident in DeKalb County that escalated into an armed standoff Monday afternoon after an exchange of gunfire.
Ladderick Curry, 42, was taken into custody by a SWAT unit after briefly barricading inside an apartment near Decatur, the GBI said in a news release Tuesday.
Officers were called to the Heritage Reserve apartments in the Snapfinger area around 3:30 p.m., DeKalb police spokeswoman Officer Elise Wells told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday. Upon arriving, a responding officer said he saw an armed man, later identified as Curry, chasing a woman across the parking lot.
According to the GBI, the officer approached Curry as he stood in an apartment doorway armed with a shotgun. Curry fired a shot at the officer and the officer returned fire, the GBI said. After backing into the apartment, Curry fired another shot and was met with more return fire, officials said. Curry was hit and suffered a non-life-threatening injury.
The SWAT team was eventually able to arrest the man and he was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he is stable. His charges were not released.
It was the 27th officer-involved shooting the GBI has been requested to investigate in 2022.
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