Police: Off-duty Ga. deputy fatally shot after fight with family member
By: Zachary Hansen, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — An off-duty Coweta County deputy was shot and killed Tuesday night after a fight with a family member, authorities told Channel 2 Action News.
The deadly shooting involving the 26-year-old deputy occurred inside a home on Snowfall Terrace in Palmetto, the news station reported. While his name has not been released, Coweta County Sheriff Lenn Wood told Channel 2 that the man has worked for his office for several years, first in the county jail and recently out in the field.
Wood said the deputy and the relative “evidently had an argument about something. They were at the back of the house, and another family in the house heard the shots and saw him run out.”
