The funeral will be held Friday for the Monroe County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed Saturday while responding to a suicide call.
Deputy Michael Norris, 24, had been declared brain dead on Sunday, but was kept alive until late Monday night so that his organs could be donated.
A second deputy, Jeff Wilson, was also shot, and remained in the hospital Monday, according to Monroe sheriff’s spokeswoman Allison Selman-Willis.
Selman-Willis told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Monday that the deputies’s alleged assailant, Christopher Keith Calmer, would be charged with murder once Norris was taken off life support, which occurred about midnight.
When the deputies arrived, Calmer exchanged gunfire with them, striking both deputies, according to Selmer-Willis. She said Calmer was also shot. He was treated and released Sunday, and is being held in an undisclosed facility.
The funeral for Norris will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth, with interment at Culloden City Cemetery. Visitation for the deputy will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center.
Monroe County is about 60 miles south of Atlanta.
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