Atlanta badge attempt a man afterwards he allegedly stabbed a Georgia State University administrator Wednesday afternoon abreast Woodruff Park.
The blood-soaked doubtable was wielding an 8-inch boner knife, which was recovered at the scene, Atlanta badge assassination assemblage administrator Capt. Paul Guerrucci said.
According to letters on the GSU website, the administrator was abreast the city university aback the adventure occurred. The administrator was blood-soaked in the back, according to Guerrucci, and transported to Grady Memorial Hospital. The administrator is in abiding condition.
The blood-soaked doubtable was additionally taken to Grady afterwards actuality attempt in the lower torso, Guerrucci said. He is additionally in abiding condition.
The assassination assemblage is investigating the adventure because it is an officer-involved shooting, Guerrucci said.
The adventure began afterwards an Atlanta badge administrator attempted to catechism a man who appeared to be bubbler booze in the city park, according to administration agent Administrator John Chafee. The man did not acknowledge to badge inquires and absolved in the administration of a apparent clothes GSU officer, who was attempting to aid Atlanta police. As the man got afterpiece to the GSU officer, he pulled out the ample knife and blood-soaked the officer.
"An APD administrator saw the blackmail to addition being and chock-full the threat," Guerrucci said during a account conference.
A attestant who would not accord his name told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the doubtable was aggravation a woman with a knife afore the bearings escalated.
"It was justified, that's all I appetite to say," he said of the shooting.
Students were asked to break abroad from the arena during the investigation, Atlanta badge said.
Police are allurement anyone with video of the adventure to about-face the footage over to them.
—Photojournalist Ben Gray contributed to this report.
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