Authorities in rural southeast Georgia fatally shot a man who was armed with a gun and had made threats against law enforcement officers, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Monday.
GBI agents are investigating the death late Sunday at the end of a five-hour standoff in Montgomery County. The GBI is routinely called on by local law enforcement agencies to investigate shootings involving officers in the state.
Montgomery County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched Sunday evening to the home of 45-year-old Donald Bonner Jr. after someone called to report that he was randomly firing a gun in his yard, the GBI said in a news release.
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