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Steven Bowers, a 21-year-old apartment resident, said he had just awakened Friday when he heard three pops of what he thought were firecrackers. The police chief said Hancock was wearing a body camera, and its video footage had been turned over to the GBI.

"I am also equally relieved that the offender is going to make it." "I'm relieved that my officer is fine," Childress said. The suspect's condition was also stable, he said. Hancock underwent surgery at a local hospital and was stable Friday as he rested with his family by his side, Childress said. "It doesn't seem like him.It's shocking to everyone." "The entire thing is kind of weird," said Sheffield, who was at work when the shooting occurred. He said they recently talked about the NBA Finals and had discussed current movies. Residents recalled seeing Beck smoke on his balcony, or occasionally engaging in casual talks with him.ĭarius Sheffield, who moved into the complex five months ago, said he would regularly see Beck outside his apartment. "He kept in touch with us after he left and even came back and volunteered his time with guys who were going through the program."Īt the time of the shooting, Beck lived at the Three Oaks Apartments where the gunfire erupted Friday. "He left us in pretty good shape emotionally, physically and spiritually," Zambaras said. When Beck arrived, Zambaras said, he was "an angry, insubordinate, very confused kid who wanted to leave every day." But he said Beck worked hard in the center's kitchen and at maintaining the long clay road leading to its doors. "He's one of the kindest, most gentle people, just genuinely so," said Taki Zambaras, who ran the treatment center when he met Beck about three years ago. He had moved to Valdosta years ago from metro Atlanta to check into a live-in treatment center for people with chemical dependencies, but several people who knew Beck said he had turned his life around. The officer, who is white, fired back and wounded the suspect.įriends and neighbors of the suspect said they were stunned Beck would be accused of such violence. Charges against Beck were pending Friday as he was being treated at a Florida hospital, Dutton said.ĭutton said one gunshot hit the officer in the abdomen, just below his protective vest. Both Childress and Dutton described Beck as an Asian male.

The GBI later identified the suspected gunman as 22-year-old Stephen Paul Beck and said it was Beck who also placed the 911 call. "The officer called out on the radio screaming for assistance," Childress said, and officers from multiple law enforcement agencies swarmed the apartment complex. Friday, Valdosta Police Chief Brian Childress said at a news conference. Officer Randall Hancock was shot multiple times as he responded to a 911 call about a car break-in outside the Three Oaks Apartments just after 8 a.m. "There's nothing to indicate there's a connection to that." "We're putting pieces together to understand what happened and why, developing witnesses," said Scott Dutton, spokesman for the GBI, which is handling the case at the request of local police. In the shooting in Valdosta, police said the suspected gunman is Asian.

Videos of those shootings or their aftermath went viral. Tensions between law enforcement and the African-American community flared this week following two instances where white officers fatally shot black men. "To attempt to assassinate a police officer who is paid to protect and serve, there is no justification for it," Brooklen said at a news conference.A police vehicle parks near the scene of an officer involved shooting, Friday, July 8, 2016, in Valdosta, Ga. Mejia faces five counts of attempted murder of a police officer, along with charges including resisting arrest with violence, aggravated fleeing and eluding, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He tried to run away, but was taken into custody. In the Miami Gardens shooting, Mejia fired additional rounds at other officers chasing him as he fled, then crashed his vehicle. The incident comes two weeks after a gunman claiming allegiance to Islamic State militants shot and wounded a police officer in Philadelphia, according to authorities there, who also described the shooting as an ambush. The FBI office in Miami offered to assist with the investigation, the agency noted. "There is no indication or nexus to terrorism," police said in a statement. Miami Gardens police said the alleged gunman, 24-year-old David Andres Mejia, apparently wanted to harm a police officer.