As the male was giving his statement to the officers, several items of drug paraphernalia were observed in plain view. |
He would not drop the gun. I believe at least one shot was fired. The offender was shot once. |
The girl was in the backyard, minding her own business. |
The person involved with the car was a violent dangerous felon known to carry firearms. |
They went in with a slow, methodical approach because we knew we had a violent felon inside and we knew we had a child inside. There was a dog inside, and they heard a dog barking. But there had been no contact whatsoever. They didn't even hear a child crying, nothing. |
This is the early stages of this investigation and we're going over all those possibilities, but right now we don't have any solid suspects. |
We are very proud to take a fugitive like this off the street. The officers did a great job. |
We have not established why he was in Gwinnett County. We are still looking into it. It's an open investigation. |
We're happy and excited. But it's not the final nail. |
We've had about five such cases a week since January. |
Witnesses tell us [the driver] was driving erratically. Investigators do believe that at least alcohol is a contributing factor to this fatality. |