Three law enforcement officers were shot while serving a warrant in central Georgia Friday morning, one fatally, officials say. The suspect in the incident is dead.
Locust Grove (GA) Police Department officer Chase Maddox (above), and two Henry County deputies, Michael Corley and Ralph Sidwell “Sid” Callaway, were shot inside a home in Locust Grove, according to Henry County Sheriff Keith McBrayer and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Maddox, 26, died. He had been with the Locust Grove police for about five years.
One of the deputies was shot through his bullet proof vest in the stomach and is undergoing surgery. He is in serious condition. The other deputy’s vest stopped the bullet, and he was listed in fair condition.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating the incident.