BIBB COUNTY, Ga. — The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are investigating a deputy-involved shooting that happened Wednesday evening.
This is the fourth shooting involving law enforcement in just 24 hours.
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The GBI said it happened at 5:45 p.m. in the Tindall Fields apartments.
Bibb County Sheriff’s deputies received information about the location of a murder suspect, Anthony Donnell Baldwin, Jr., involved in the homicide of Claudette Brown on November 14, 2022.
They spotted Baldwin near the Housing Authority Apartment Complex on Felton Avenue at Alabama Street in a Chevy Yukon on Houston Avenue.
Baldwin was seen in a GMC Yukon that was also reported as stolen.
Investigators with BCSO began to follow Baldwin and initiated a traffic stop. Baldwin stopped and quickly got out of the SUV, then reached back into the SUV and grabbed a firearm.
BCSO said that’s when an investigator shot Baldwin.
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A young child was in the SUV but was not injured, according to the GBI.
BCSO said Baldwin was treated by deputies until E.M.S. workers arrived and then taken to a medical center for treatment and he is in stable condition.
No one else was injured in this incident.
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