The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

DEADLY SHOOTING MAN DIES AFTER CONFRONTAT­ION WITH OFFICER

- By Steve Burns steve.burns@ajc.com and Bo Emerson bemerson@ajc.com ACTION NEWS

An Atlanta man died after an officer-involved shooting incident early Saturday in College Park, the GBI said.

A Fulton County police officer responded to the Baby Grand Piano Bar in the 5000 block of Old National Highway regarding a person hit by a vehicle, GBI spokeswoma­n Nelly Miles said in a statement.

The officer encountere­d the vehicle, and the officer and an armed security guard fired their guns, Miles said. The man drove the car from the parking lot, and the car wrecked a short distance away.

“The subject was transporte­d to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he later died,” Miles said.

The man was identified as Willie Ivy III, 29, according to Tami Sedivy-Schroder, senior investigat­or with the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office. No cause of death was released.

The autopsy will be conducted Monday, said Sedivy-Schroder.

The car involved in the incident came to rest on its roof in a parking lot.

The GBI is investigat­ing the incident, which is standard in police-involved shooting cases. Neither the officer nor security guard was identified by police on Saturday.

In January and February of this year, the GBI conducted 17 officer-involved shooting investigat­ions in Georgia, Miles said.

The GBI investigat­ed 78 police-involved shootings in the state last year.

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