Good Guy with a Gun #123: Atlanta, GA (Free post)
Original incident: March 5, 2024. When you're burglarizing an apartment, try to know your target so you don't wind up facing an off-duty cop. And avoid falling three stories when he shoots at you.
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An Atlanta police officer was off-duty — which means he’s just another good guy with a gun — and in his home at the Dwell at the View apartment complex when he found himself face-to-face with a burglar.
He grabbed his gun and fired at the intruder, who evaded the bullets but couldn’t escape gravity as he crashed through a window and fell three stories to the ground.
The burglar sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was hospitalized.
The bullets sent him running, the fall removed him as a danger, but it was the sudden stop at the end that gave him a hard lesson. Isn’t it always?
Sources
Primary source
The police report appears to be the primary source, in both senses, for all of the other reporting.
News sources
WSB-TV and Radio are the two major news sources I’ve found that covered the story.
WTAM also gave some coverage derived from those sources.
Specialist sources
Sean Holt at USACarry also covered this incident.