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Update: Lowndes Co. deputy-involved shooting under investigation, 1 dead By Dave Miller and Jordan Barela | March 12, 2021 at 2:36 PM EST - Updated March 12 at 8:02 PM
VALDOSTA, Ga. (WALB) - A deputy in the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office was involved in a shooting incident just before noon Friday.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) has been asked to launch an investigation into the incident.
In a press release, the GBI said, upon arrival, the man resisted the deputies and was armed with a butcher knife. Agents said the man became combative and deputies deployed a taser on him, which was ineffective.
At some point during the incident, agents said the man lunged towards the deputies with the knife. One of the deputies fired his service weapon, hitting the man.
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Kenneth and Jacquelyn Johnson stand next to a banner on their SUV showing their late son Kendrick, in Valdosta, Ga., in December 2013. A family spokesperson told NPR they are cautiously optimistic after the Lowndes County Sheriff s Office reopened its investigation last week. Russ Bynum / AP
A Georgia sheriff s office is reopening an investigation into the 2013 death of Kendrick Johnson, a Black teenager whose body was found inside a rolled-up gym mat in his high school gymnasium.
Lowndes County Sheriff Ashley Paulk, who was retired at the time of Johnson s death, confirmed to NPR that his office officially reopened the investigation on Friday. It did so after receiving documents it had long requested from a Justice Department investigation that closed in 2016.
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