Gunman in Vehicle Fires at Suburban Atlanta Police Officer

A gunman and a police officer exchanged fire in south Georgia early Friday.

The suspect has been identified as 21 year-old Victor Alonzo Majia Nunez of Riverdale.

Officials said that the officer was wearing a bullet proof vest and a body camera. Both men were wounded in the ensuing gunfire, and both are expected to survive.

The man who shot a Valdosta police officer several times was the same person who called 911 to summon authorities in the first place, investigators announced Friday. Childress declined to comment on any possible motives of the shooting.

The mother of the son of a black man killed by white Louisiana police officers said Friday she grieved with the families of five police officers killed in Dallas during a protest over police shootings, adding she was now.

For a third night, protesters trying to make sense of recent events gathered at the store where a black man was shot to death by police, emotions stoked by another fatal shooting in Minnesota. And in Tennessee, a shooter opened fire on a highway, a hotel, and a group of responding officers, killing one woman and wounding several others.

The officer then chased the blue Ford Explorer, which travelled through a shopping centre before striking a curb and median and breaking its tires, Frommer said.

Officer Hancock and the suspect were taken to different hospitals.

No details about the suspect or any charges were immediately released, though Frommer said the Ford Explorer had a Georgia license plate.

The shooting happened shortly before 1 a.m. ET Friday, a few hours after a sniper attack.

Officer Brian McKenzie was not injured.

Though he’s been speaking with investigators, “his cooperation has been limited”, police said in a midmorning update on the case.

Five South Sudanese government soldiers were killed in a shootout late Thursday between opposing army factions in the capital, a military official said Friday, and the United Nations mission reported an attack on a senior.

Roswell, a city of about 90,000 people, is about 20 miles north of Atlanta.