VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) - A south Georgia sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a man Friday that the sheriff said was attacking a second deputy with a knife.
Lowndes County Sheriff Ashley Paulk says the shooting happened before noon at an apartment complex in Valdosta.
He says the deputies were trying to serve papers on the assailant and that the second deputy “took defensive action to protect the other deputy.”
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says it has launched an inquiry, as is customary in most police shootings in Georgia.
GBI says no deputies were injured.
It’s the 15th police shooting the GBI has investigated this year, and the fourth in which someone died.
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