Calhoun’s police officer shot on Buc-ee’s incident Local news

UPDATE: Tony Pyle, chief of police from Calhoun, says the man who shot the officials was to Buc-Ee’s by kidnapping a woman and a 10-year kidnapping.

Pyle says that the suspect Robert Smith went to a woman in Atlanta and held her with a gun held up to go to Nashville. She also started the journey with a ten -year -old on board.

Around 4:00 a.m. at Buc-EE’s in Calhoun, they made a Pitstop at Buc-EE in Calhoun, where the woman hid in a bathroom.

The woman was finally able to alert an employee at BUC-EE to call the police.

When the police arrived, they tried to captivate Smith with handcuffs that escaped to a police officer in Calhoun and fired shots. The officer was not injured and did not fire his weapon.

Smith then stole a truck and fled Calhoun police.

“It was handled as well as possible,” said Chief Pyle.

Pyle says he was grateful that the incident happened at the time because there was fewer people at Buc -Ee’s -a very popular road trip boxing stop.

“It’s like an ant farm … If it had been at a busy time, someone would have been hurt,” says Pyle. He says that at Buc-EE you have never treated a problem with the topic of “this extreme”.

Smith continued on Interstate 75 in the stolen vehicle, with the MPs of Whitfield County being pursued. He shot several shots from the car window, but did not hit MPs.

Soon afterwards the vehicle lost control. It was later found that Smith had died of a self -inflicted gunshot wound.

According to Pyle, Smith came from the Chattanooga region, but visited Atlanta and Nashville.

Previous history: A man died of a self-inflicted firing wound in Whitfield County, after shot the Buc-EE parking lot on the parking lot of the Buc-EE, once again shot the deputies on the Interstate 75 and stolen a vehicle on Thursday morning.

The Calhoun’s police department said that the incident had started as a domestic call at Buc-EE’s, in which the suspect shot on civil servants before stole a vehicle and fled the police.

“At this point there is no immediate danger or threat to the public, and if possible, further information will be published,” says Whitfield County’s office.

The official who was not released to any injuries.

The MPs of Whitfield County were informed about a “viewpoint” for the suspect with a stolen vehicle to the north on the I-75.

The Whitfield members found the vehicle in the Chattanooga Road, and a persecution began when the suspect did not stop.

The suspect then fired a weapon in the Whitfield County MPs several times. The MPs did not return fire.

The persecution took three miles before the suspect lost control of the vehicle, and the MPs found a self -inflicted gunshot wound on the suspect.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation supports the investigation.

Previous history: A Calhoun police officer was released on Thursday morning at BUC-EE’s early Thursday morning, but was not injured.

The Calhoun’s police reacted to a domestic call when the suspect shot at an official.

The suspect steel a vehicle, fled out of the scene and was arrested shortly after the Whitfield County’s sheriff.

The officer who was not shot on any injuries. The examination continues.

In the early Thursday morning, the GBI confirmed to Local 3 News that a death examination for a death examination was carried out in Whitfield County.