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Blog posts by Blake Aued

  • ACCPD Officers Shoot, Kill Knife-Wielding Man

    Blog: In the Loop

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    Police Chief Cleveland Spruill.

    Athens-Clarke County police officers shot and killed a man with a knife earlier today at an apartment complex off Macon Highway.

    Three officers responded to multiple calls at about 12:30 p.m. of a man with a knife who was covered in blood and "acting erratically" on the 1000 block of Macon Highway, according to Police Chief Cleveland Spruill. He added that the blood was the man's own.

    The man disregarded the officers' commands to drop the knife and began to advance on the officers, who retreated, Spruill said. When the man broke into a run, two of the officers fired multiple times, he said.

    By Blake Aued | July 1, 2019

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