A police detective was fatally shot and another officer wounded after a suspected gunman opened fire in rural Georgia.
Seth Brandon Spangler was wanted for a probation violation before Polk County officer Kristin Hearne was shot and killed on Friday morning, according to Sheriff Kenny Dodd.
A second officer, David Goodrich, was shot but saved from serious injury by his bulletproof vest.
The pair were investigating reports of a stolen car Friday morning when they encountered Spangler and Samantha Roof, 22, at the edge of a woody area near Cedartown, close to the Alabama border.
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The George Bureau of Investigation, looking into the shooting, said that Spangler, 31, pulled out a pistol and killed Hearne.
Police captured Brandon Spangler after the shooting in Polk County, Georgia.
(GA Bureau of Investigations)
Roof was arrested shortly afterwards, with the gunman later surrendering without clothes on, according to Dodd.
Hearne was a 29-year-old detective who had been with her department five years.
She leaves behind a husband and a 3-year-old daughter.
With News Wire Services
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