A man was fatally shot during a clash with officers in Canton early Saturday morning, according to officials.
Canton police responded to a call at about 1:30 a.m. in the Southern Lights at Great Sky subdivision. When police arrived at a home in the 400 block of Parkbrook Way, they encountered a man with a gun, according to department officials.
In a news release, a GBI spokesperson said a woman at the home told police the gunman, identified as 38-year-old To Vung of Canton, was in a room. Shots rang out as they approached the room and one of the officers fired his weapon at Vung, according to the state agency.
GBI investigators said the officer struck Vung but that the preliminary evidence suggests at least one of his gunshot wounds was self-inflicted.
Authorities did not say if Vung fired any shots at officers. He died at the scene. The GBI will conduct the autopsy.
No officers were injured during the incident.
It is the 32nd officer-involved shooting the GBI has been asked to investigate this year. By the same time last year, there had been 17.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution also tracks officer-involved shootings that don’t involve the GBI, and those numbers sometimes differ from the GBI’s tally.
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