DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A DeKalb County officer was stabbed responding to a suspicious person call on Monday.
The DeKalb County Police Department said they responded to the area of DeKalb Industrial Way and N. Decatur Road, where the suspect stabbed an officer once.
Channel 2’s Tom Jones was in DeKalb County, where, thankfully, no one was in the building when the incident happened.
Before the building sat empty, it was a Rutland Contracting office.
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Witnesses tell Jones homeless people hang out in that area.
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Soon after hearing shots, one witness told Jones that “just a bunch of police cars” arrived.
Another witness shared video with Channel 2 Action News of the moments paramedics were tending the wounded officer.
Police say the officer, who has not been identified, had gone to the abandoned building on N. Decatur Road for a suspicious person call and there was a confrontation, leading to the officer being stabbed and shooting the suspect, who has also not been identified.
Pauline Renfroe, a witness, said she’s praying for both of them.
Police said at 9:15 a.m. that the suspect died of his injuries. Police later issued a correction at 9:45 a.m. that the suspect did not die, but is in critical condition.
The officer is stable with moderate injury at Grady Memorial Hospital.
Channel 2 Action News has asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for more information on what happened and was told to keep checking the agency’s social media for updates.
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