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CRAWFORD COUNTY, Ga. -- Two officers were shot and a suspect was killed in a drug raid Monday morning.
A multi-jurisdictional drug task force was executing a probable cause warrant at a home on state Highway 42 in Crawford County at 2:10 a.m. when the shooting happened.
GBI Special Agent in charge J.T. Ricketson said the officers knocked on a back door of the home and announced themselves at least once.
“As they were going in, one of the occupants inside the house fired,†and struck the two officers.
The other officers at the raid returned fire on the suspect, killing him.
Both officers were taken to the Medical Center, Navicent Health in Macon where one was later released. One officer was seriously injured when “multiple rounds that struck the officer in his left arm,†Ricketson said.