LAVONIA, Ga. — A police officer's body camera has captured the moment a Lavonia police officer and his partner were shot following a traffic stop.
The video shows the first officer fall to the ground before it cuts off. Both officers are now recovering.
Channel 2's Tom Regan spent the day Tuesday in Lavonia, Franklin County, where he learned the accused gunman had been out on bond charges of attempted murder in another state when he allegedly shot the officers.
The video shows Capt. Michael Shulman approach the man, whom the officers had stopped because he was driving a stolen car. The driver then pulls a gun and shoots.
After Shulman is shot under the arm, the alleged gunman shoots his partner, Jeffery Martin, in the hand. Martin had grabbed his colleague to pull him to safety.
“Even after Jeffrey got shot, he's pulling Michael to the car to get him to the hospital," Lavonia Police Chief Bruce Carlisle told Regan.
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Following a massive search late Monday night, police caught accused gunman Khari Gordon hiding in some bushes a mile from the shooting.
He made his first appearance before a magistrate judge Tuesday on charges including attempted murder of the police officers and aggravated assault.
“You posed a significant threat or danger to the persons in the community," Franklin County Magistrate Court Judge Cody Grizzle told Gordon.
Regan looked into Gordon’s criminal record in Greenville, South Carolina, and learned he's been arrested over 20 times in the past two years.
Gordon was currently out on bond on attempted murder charges from 2015.
Carlisle expressed to Regan this disbelief that Gordon had been granted bond before.
“It’s unacceptable that he was on the streets, and I can assure him he will have a different outcome in the state of Georgia,” Carlisle said.
Both officers are doing much better. Shulman has been moved out of intensive care. Martin is out of the hospital but will need surgery to remove the bullet from his hand.
"He's only been in this for a year. He was in the military for three years and nothing like this happened," Martin’s mother-in-law Maria Chitwood told Channel 2’s Carl Willis.