A man shot and wounded himself Monday when officers sought to question him about four escapees from a Georgia jail, authorities said.
Bibb County Sheriff David Davis told reporters deputies got a tip about a man who might have information about the escapes.
“Let me make that clear– he is not one of our escapees,” Davis told reporters. “But he is a person that we feel has knowledge of where they might be, that has knowledge of the escape, and who has some connection to at least one or two of the people we’re looking for.”
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