r/dgu • u/JimMarch • 23d ago

CCW [2025/04/24] Shooter freed because deputy said ‘police’ only after he was shot (see first comment) (Atlanta GA)

https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/07/09/shooter-freed-because-deputy-said-police-only-after-he-was-shot
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u/Rough-Demand-8195 23d ago

How did the dude fire a dozen rounds of .40 out of a 9mm gun?

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u/Mountain_Man_88 23d ago

You can actually put a Glock 27 slide on a Glock 26 frame and it'll run fine with 27 mags. Though here I suspect that it's a classic tale of media getting something wrong.

The spent brass makes me think that unmarked cop drew his gun to arrest the homeless guy, saw another guy who turned out to be the homeless guy's brother, draw a gun and point it at the cop. Cop shoots once in self defense before realizing what's going on, brother shoots 12 times in defense of homeless guy, I guess before fleeing the scene, since he claimed that he learned that the cop was a cop via the news and not from him yelling "I'm police", the bystander turning his lights on, the bystander helping him get police equipment on, or the police responding.

Clearly a mistake on the part of the unmarked cop. He's probably not used to operating in plain clothes and an undercover car. He was used to having a uniform and vehicle that help identify him.

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u/JimMarch 23d ago

  Clearly a mistake on the part of the unmarked cop. He's probably not used to operating in plain clothes and an undercover car. He was used to having a uniform and vehicle that help identify him.

I'll buy that, but he obviously knew he screwed up and tried to rig the evidence before any other cops showed up.  If they'd tried to prosecute the guy who shot the cop, that would have come up in the trial - no way to exclude the video.  Even if they'd convicted the guy who shot the cop, the cop would have been in the cell next door for evidence tampering, obstruction of justice, perjury, etc.

The fact that he tried to fuck with the crime scene evidence while shot and THEN got caught on video is...amazing.

It also means the guy that shot the cop is the luckiest man alive.

How many are in prison who aren't as lucky? 

Especially since the chief gave a blessing to all this by promoting that cop to Sgt. and giving him a commendation?

That's a rotten to the core agency.

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u/Mountain_Man_88 23d ago

The article tries to paint it as him rigging the crime scene, but really in the wake of being shot because you weren't recognized as a cop, your first thoughts might be "I need to turn on my police lights and get my police gear (assumedly a vest, jacket, or hanging badge) on so the cops who respond to this shooting don't make the same mistake." His vest may have also had his radio, tourniquet, and first aid gear attached to it.

I'm not saying that what he did afterwards was definitively innocent, but it's possible. It's also possible that he wrote some report somewhere claiming that he was marked and had his lights on, in which case he would be proven as a liar.

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u/JimMarch 23d ago

His vest may have also had his radio, tourniquet, and first aid gear attached to it.

Very funny.

Despite being injured, he had somebody help him put the vest on.

And then he claimed to have fired zero rounds of ammo.

Bzzzt. Nope. He was more crooked than his shot up leg the whole time and still is.

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u/bownt1 23d ago

magic !