Posted on 08/18/2024 5:09:04 AM PDT by marktwain
Brookhaven, GA (August 16, 2024) - At the request of the Brookhaven Police Department, GBI agents are investigating an officer involved shooting in Brookhaven, GA. Albert Eugene Burns, age 19, of Snellville, GA was shot and injured in the incident. No officers were injured.
On Thursday, August 15, 2024, at about 11:00 p.m., Brookhaven PD officers responded to a home invasion call on Caldwell Road. While the homeowner was looking at her home surveillance video, she saw four armed gunmen inside her home. The homeowner contacted a friend who responded to the home and confronted the armed suspects. A shootout took place between the suspects and the homeowner’s friend. As the suspects drove off in a Lexus, a responding officer observed the car leaving the neighborhood. The officer pursued the suspects’ car into the city of Chamblee where the car wrecked near a utility pole. The four suspects got out of the car and started to run away. Burns, the driver of the car, had a gun in hand. The officer fired his gun and hit Burns. Burns dropped a gun, but continued to run. While running, he dropped a second gun. The officer shot Burns again while he was trying to pick up the gun.
Burns was taken into custody and is at a local hospital.
Dunwoody PD and Chamblee PD assisted with setting up a perimeter and K-9 search. Police located Davion Harper, age 22, of Conyers, GA, and Tyson Kamari Kirksey, age 18, of Conyers, GA and took them into custody without incident. They will be booked into the DeKalb County Jail. The fourth suspect is still at large.
Brookhaven PD is investigating the home invasion and aggravated assault.
The GBI will conduct an independent investigation into the officer’s use of force. Anyone with information about the fourth suspect’s location should contact police. Anonymous tips can be submitted by calling 1-800-597-TIPS(8477), online at https://gbi.georgia.gov/submit-tips-online, or by downloading the See Something, Send Something mobile app.
Once complete, the case file will be given to the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office for review.
First, middle and last name of the guy that got shot. Suspects first and last. I’m sure there’s a lot more to this story. I do my best to stay out of the immediate atlanta burbs and in the more than a decade in a more rural area of atlanta have been downtown a handful of times.
Downtown is better than Detroit, Chicago and several other cities I’ve been to but it’s still a crap hole.
Just Teens acting stupid.
Sounds like the suspects were in a stolen Lexus and were heavily armed and they will face no punishment for any crime they commit these days.
I lived in that area 96-98, nice area, quiet and not a lot of crime back then. I had a 15 minute drive to Buckhead, where I worked. Back then $115K-$140K would get a decent house, but I know prices have skyrocketed, some prices I’ve seen are at least 4 times that.
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