A South Georgia SWAT team shot and killed a man who had barricaded himself inside a home with multiple hostages, including three children, officials said.
Daryl Jay Carr, 45, was shot during an exchange of gunfire with SWAT officers when they entered his Allenhurst home after a six-hour standoff Saturday morning, according to the GBI. He was pronounced dead at Liberty Regional Medical Center, GBI Special Agent Chris DeMarco said.
Liberty County deputies were initially sent to a “domestic dispute” at the home on Maggie Lane, a few miles south of Fort Stewart, the GBI said. When they arrived, things devolved into a hostage situation involving Carr’s wife, their two children and one child who was not related to them, DeMarco said.
The Liberty sheriff’s office assembled a SWAT team at the home, and they were soon able to negotiate the release of the children, he said.
“While negotiations continued, Carr told deputies that he would shoot them if they entered the home,” DeMarco said in a news release.
At some point, Carr’s wife escaped by jumping out of a second-story window, authorities said. She landed on a trampoline set up by the SWAT team.
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Hours later, the SWAT team determined that negotiations “were no longer being effective,” according to the GBI. The SWAT officers deployed tear gas and a flash grenade to end the standoff and tried to enter the home about 11:45 a.m.
Before they got too far inside, they spotted Carr on the upstairs landing.
A gunbattle ensued between Carr and the officers, the GBI said. The agency did not say who is believed to have fired first, but said Carr was hit multiple times. No officers were injured during the incident, which remains under investigation.
It is the 64th shooting involving a law enforcement officer the agency has been asked to investigate this year. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution also tracks officer-involved shootings that don’t involve the GBI, and those numbers sometimes differ from the GBI’s tally.
