JonInMiddleGA
02-27-2005, 09:24 PM
Just saw this on one of the local (Atlanta) TV newscasts, had to share it.
Apparently Atlanta was hosting a charity hockey event, featuring teams made of police officers from around the country, with proceeds going toward relief funds for law enforcement killed/injured in the line of duty.
Meanwhile, earlier this week, in a suburb west of Atlanta ...
DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (AP) _ A deputy died after being shot in the head in a shooting that also killed another man.
Deputy Blake Gammill was airlifted to Atlanta Medical Center on Thursday night, where he was pronounced dead.
The incident began around 10:30 p.m. when authorities went to a home in Douglas County just south of Interstate 20 to serve a search and arrest warrant against Jimmy Bilbo, a former Douglas County deputy who was accused last year of child molestation.
The deputies were about to take Bilbo into custody when his stepfather appeared out of a back room and opened fire, hitting the deputy in the face. Authorities returned fire, killing Bilbo's stepfather, who was identified as Gerald Greene.
Douglas County District Attorney David McDade said Gammill had been on the force for eight years. He is survived by a wife and two young children.
Bilbo was not hurt in the shooting and was taken into custody.
Bilbo had been free on bond in the child molestation case. But deputies came to his home because he had been seen leaving a mall with a juvenile that afternoon, authorities said.
The visiting officers/hockey players not only raised money among themselves to donate to the family, but they detoured more than 30 miles out of their way en route to the airport to visit the funeral home & pay their respects to the fallen officer.
Toward the end of the story, the reporter commented one of the officers (from NYC I believe) about how they "went out of their way to come by", the officer choked up as he replied "We didn't go out of our way, this deputy went out of his way."
He choked up, and so did I.
Apparently Atlanta was hosting a charity hockey event, featuring teams made of police officers from around the country, with proceeds going toward relief funds for law enforcement killed/injured in the line of duty.
Meanwhile, earlier this week, in a suburb west of Atlanta ...
DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (AP) _ A deputy died after being shot in the head in a shooting that also killed another man.
Deputy Blake Gammill was airlifted to Atlanta Medical Center on Thursday night, where he was pronounced dead.
The incident began around 10:30 p.m. when authorities went to a home in Douglas County just south of Interstate 20 to serve a search and arrest warrant against Jimmy Bilbo, a former Douglas County deputy who was accused last year of child molestation.
The deputies were about to take Bilbo into custody when his stepfather appeared out of a back room and opened fire, hitting the deputy in the face. Authorities returned fire, killing Bilbo's stepfather, who was identified as Gerald Greene.
Douglas County District Attorney David McDade said Gammill had been on the force for eight years. He is survived by a wife and two young children.
Bilbo was not hurt in the shooting and was taken into custody.
Bilbo had been free on bond in the child molestation case. But deputies came to his home because he had been seen leaving a mall with a juvenile that afternoon, authorities said.
The visiting officers/hockey players not only raised money among themselves to donate to the family, but they detoured more than 30 miles out of their way en route to the airport to visit the funeral home & pay their respects to the fallen officer.
Toward the end of the story, the reporter commented one of the officers (from NYC I believe) about how they "went out of their way to come by", the officer choked up as he replied "We didn't go out of our way, this deputy went out of his way."
He choked up, and so did I.