Off-duty APD cop wounds man in Johns Creek

By CHRISTIAN BOONE
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Wednesday, July 01, 2009

An unidentified man was seriously wounded early Wednesday evening in a Johns Creek subdivision after a shootout involving an off-duty Atlanta Police Department officer and two local officers.

The Atlanta cop heard gunfire outside his home on Abbotts Station Drive a little before 7 p.m., said Johns Creek Police Department Chief Ed Densmore. Identifying himself, the APD officer ordered the man, said to be in his 50s, to drop his weapon. The man refused, gunshots were exchanged and the armed man was plunked in the leg, Densmore said.

As he was confronting the man, the APD officer alerted 911. Johns Creek officers arrived in a “dynamic situation,” Densmore said. More bullets were exchanged, and the suspect was shot again and transported to Emory Johns Creek Hospital.