{"id":33542,"date":"2022-03-10T16:44:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T21:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=33542"},"modified":"2022-03-10T16:45:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T21:45:59","slug":"shootout-at-georgia-behavioral-health-hospital-injures-both-officer-and-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=33542","title":{"rendered":"Shootout at Georgia behavioral health hospital injures both officer and patient"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"\/tag\/Lawrenceville\">LAWRENCEVILLE<\/a> &#8212; A patient at a Lawrenceville behavioral health hospital and a Lawrenceville Police Officer\u00a0were both hospitalized Wednesday after a shootout outside the hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, preliminary information indicates that\u00a0at about 10:40 p.m., Lawrenceville\u00a0police received a call about an unruly patient at Summit Ridge Behavioral Health Hospital at 250 Scenic Highway in Lawrenceville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When officers arrived, they encountered\u00a020-year-old Austin Collins in a fenced area at the back of the facility. Police say Collins attacked one of the officers and took his handgun. Collins was then shot by a second officer.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the incident, the first officer was shot as well. Collins and the injured officer\u00a0were taken to Northside Gwinnett Hospital. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collins is in critical condition and the officer is in stable condition. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GBI will conduct an independent investigation. &nbsp;Once complete, the case file will be given to the Gwinnett County District Attorney\u2019s Office for review.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the 24<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0officer involved shooting the GBI has been requested to investigate in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=11]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A patient at a Lawrenceville behavioral health hospital and a Lawrenceville Police Officer\u00a0were both hospitalized Wednesday after a shootout outside the hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":33543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8498,8618],"class_list":["post-33542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-gwinnett-county","tag-lawrenceville","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}