By Associated Press - Wednesday, March 31, 2021

LITHIA SPRINGS, Ga. (AP) - A man has been killed in a shooting that also wounded a Georgia sheriff’s deputy west of Atlanta, authorities said.

The shooting happened Tuesday night at a motorcycle dealership in Lithia Springs, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement on social media.

Deputies had responded to an armed robbery in progress at the business, Douglas County sheriff’s Capt. Trent Wilson. A deputy was shot in the leg and taken to a hospital for treatment, he said.



More details are expected to be released Wednesday, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

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