A 47-year-old man was shot by a Georgia sheriff’s deputy and killed Sunday while the two struggled over the deputy’s gun, officials said.
Denrick Demond Stallings, who was from Roberta, was the subject of a high-speed chase that wound several miles through Crawford County until Stallings crashed his car and continued on foot, according to the GBI. He was shot at the end of the chase by a Crawford County deputy and died at the scene, the state agency said in a news release.
The shooting near Macon was the third investigated by the GBI over the weekend following incidents in Columbus and Lyons, a small town outside Vidalia. It is the fifth officer-involved shooting the state agency has probed this year and the second to result in death.
According to the news release, a Crawford deputy first tried to pull over Stallings’ vehicle for speeding about 12:15 p.m. Stallings refused to stop and led the deputy on a pursuit for “several miles” before the crash, Special Agent Jerry Jones said in the release.
“Stallings got out of the car and ran away from the deputy sheriff,” Jones said. “Stallings continued to run while the deputy was chasing him and attempting to arrest Stallings. The deputy deployed his Taser, hitting Stallings and causing him to fall to the ground.”
The two struggled as the deputy attempted to arrest Stallings, and Stallings was shot and killed, Jones said. The GBI was expected to turn its findings over to the Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office for review at the close of the investigation.
Earlier Sunday, the GBI said a 17-year-old girl was shot by a Georgia State Patrol trooper as she ran from the scene of another police chase. Taliyah Williams was injured and a 32-year-old man, identified by the GBI as Charles James, was arrested. Police in Lyons were investigating a bank alarm and heard gunshots when they spotted James and Williams driving in the area and initiated a pursuit, officials said.
Williams was stable Monday and charges against her are pending, according to a GBI spokeswoman.
On Friday, Tobias Maddox, 39, of Columbus, was shot in the leg when he fired a gun while running from Columbus police, according to the GBI. He was expected to survive.
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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