A police officer in east Dublin was shot Monday while responding to a call of someone firing a gun inside a mobile home park, state investigators said. The officer wounded a man believed to have been shooting in the park and both sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement that preliminary information indicates the officer was responding to a gunshot call at Ponderosa Trailer Park and was shot immediately after exiting a police vehicle. The officer returned fire, shooting 35-year-old David Jermaine Fountain, the agency said.
The agency said Fountain lives in the mobile home park and investigators believe he was shooting at the mobile homes before the officer arrived.
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A Georgia police officer was shot while responding to a call of someone firing a weapon inside a mobile home park.
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Fountain was taken to a hospital in Macon for treatment and is facing warrants for aggravated assault on a peace officer and aggravated assault, the agency said. Other charges are pending.
The officer was treated and released. The officer’s identity was not immediately released.
