DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ga. — A mother says she is thankful her child is alive after she was shot by a deputy after the end of a two-county police chase.
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The child is OK after she was shot in the arm at the BP gas station on Fulton Industrial Boulevard Sunday night.
The mother of the child posted a video of the bullet on her Instagram page. She captioned the photo “I can’t stop crying.”
The GBI says this all started when Dallas police arrested 25-year-old Rashauny Mike Palmer on Sunday for aggravated assault and kidnapping. They say that even though he was handcuffed, he escaped from a patrol unit, jumped into his car, and drove off east on Interstate 20.
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Agents say Palmer crashed at Fulton Industrial Boulevard and took off running to the BP, where he tried to carjack the mother of the child. She was parked at the gas pump, when he walked up to the car.
Douglas County deputies say they opened fire on Palmer. Deputies say a fragment from a bullet hit the child. The mother posted a picture of deputies surrounding her daughter at the scene on Instagram.
She also posted the junior deputy badge officers gave her daughter. The mother says her daughter called her a crybaby because she was crying so much.
Police arrested Palmer.
The Dallas Police Department charged Palmer with the following:
- Obstruction of law enforcement officers
- Criminal attempt to commit murder
- Battery- intentionally causes substantial physical harm or visible bodily harm to another
- Battery- family violence
- False imprisonment- family violence
- Aggravated assault with intent to rape/murder/rob
- Terroristic threats
- Kidnapping- family violence
- Escape
- Possession Of a firearm or knife during the commission of or attempt to commit certain felonies
- Reckless conduct
- Theft By taking
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The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has charged Palmer with felony fleeing and attempting to elude.
The GBI has charged Palmer with:
- Hijacking a motor vehicle in the second degree
- Cruelty to children
- Obstruction
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