Off-duty Henry County police officer shot at Atlanta gas station
A Henry County police officer is in the hospital recovering after being shot at a northwest Atlanta gas station, police said.
The officer was off duty when the shooting occurred just before 1:30 a.m. Saturday in the 3500 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Atlanta police said he pulled into the gas station and decided to leave when he saw a large group of people loitering outside.
As he was exiting, an unidentified man fired shots into the victim’s driver’s-side door, police said. The man drove himself to Grady Memorial Hospital, where officers met with him and he told them he was an off-duty cop from Henry County.
Officials did not release the wounded officer’s name or provide an update on his condition.
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