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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
DECATUR, Ga. — Two police officers were shot and killed in an apparent ambush at an apartment complex early Wednesday, police said.
The two officers were investigating a suspicious person at the complex when shots rang out, DeKalb County Police Chief Terrell Bolton said.
A tow truck driver later called police to the scene around 12:40 a.m. and the arriving officers found their two colleagues, Bolton said.
One officer was dead at the scene. The other was later pronounced dead at a hospital in Atlanta, Bolton said.
Bolton said the shooting looked like an ambush.
"It just appeared that they were gunned down without a chance," he said.
Authorities were searching for two males seen running from the scene, Bolton said. Police set up a mobile crime unit and were using dogs and a helicopter to search for the suspects.
"We've got every able body looking for them," he said.
The officers' names were not immediately released. Bolton said one was a two-year veteran and the other had been on the force for four years.
"It's a challenging day for us," Bolton said. "However, today's act of senseless violence is a display of what we're seeing around the country where people will shoot down a police officer without regard to any repercussions."
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