A Georgia police officer was killed and another was critically injured on Feb. 1 after a shooting at a hotel in suburban Atlanta, authorities said.
During a news conference, Gwinnett County Police Chief James D. McClure said two officers responded to a fraud-related call at 7:30 a.m. local time at a hotel in Stone Mountain, Georgia, located about 25 miles northeast of Atlanta. When the officers arrived, McClure said they went to the room of a person who was believed to have fraudulently used a credit card.
The officers made contact with the suspect, who invited them inside the room, McClure added.
"They began discussing the scenario or the incident with him," the police chief said. "And at some point the suspect produced a handgun and, in an unprovoked attack, fired at our Gwinnett County police officers."
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