A Georgia deputy has shot and killed a shovel-wielding man who hit him and threatened a store clerk.
Fox 24 reports that report that Denver Thompson, 26, was fatally shot at a convenience store Saturday night by a Carroll County deputy. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says deputies responded earlier that night to a report that Thompson had threatened his mother and brother with a gun.
It says responding deputies arrived to find Thompson had already fled the scene.
A sheriff’s office investigator visited a nearby Circle K and saw Thompson threatening the clerk with the shovel. The subsequent confrontation ended in the shooting.