{"id":37886,"date":"2022-07-08T12:06:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T16:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=37886"},"modified":"2023-09-24T16:22:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T20:22:13","slug":"police-kill-georgia-man-they-say-pinned-an-officer-between-two-cars-and-then-dragged-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=37886","title":{"rendered":"Police kill Georgia man they say pinned an officer between two cars and then dragged him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"\/tag\/Marietta\">MARIETTA<\/a> &#8212; A 26-year-old man was shot and killed by <a href=\"\/tag\/Cobb-County\">Cobb County<\/a> police after police say he pinned an officer between his car and the officer&#8217;s car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer was injured during the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, preliminary information indicates that at 6:26 p.m. Thursday, Marietta police officers were on patrol near the Motel 6 at 2360 Delk Road in Marietta.\u00a0 Officers approached a car and made contact with the people in it.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the interaction, police say the driver, identified as 26-year-old Rafael Esteban Ramirez, of <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Atlanta\"   title=\"Atlanta\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Atlanta<\/a>, reversed his car, hitting a marked police car. Ramirez put the car in drive and accelerated, pinning an officer between the marked car and his own, and dragging and injuring the officer.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers fired their weapons at Ramirez, hitting him.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer was treated and released from Kennestone Hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramirez was taken to Kennestone Hospital where he was pronounced dead. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-map\" data-map-style=\"default\" data-map-details=\"true\" data-points=\"[{&quot;placeTitle&quot;:&quot;Delk Road Southeast&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Delk Road Southeast&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;2360 Delk Road Southeast, Marietta, Georgia 30067, United States&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;address.2650111829546408&quot;,&quot;coordinates&quot;:{&quot;longitude&quot;:-84.48339,&quot;latitude&quot;:33.9216}}]\" data-zoom=\"13\" data-map-center=\"{&quot;lng&quot;:-84.48339,&quot;lat&quot;:33.9216}\" data-marker-color=\"red\" data-show-fullscreen-button=\"true\"><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/search\/?api=1&amp;query=33.9216,-84.48339\">Delk Road Southeast<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The GBI will conduct an independent investigation. Once complete, the case will be given to the Cobb County District Attorney\u2019s Office for review.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=7]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 26-year-old man was shot and killed by Cobb County police after police say he pinned an officer between his car and the officer&#8217;s car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":37887,"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":[8486,8485],"class_list":["post-37886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-cobb-county","tag-marietta","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37886","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=37886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}