{"id":46710,"date":"2023-01-19T21:48:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=46710"},"modified":"2023-01-19T21:48:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T02:48:55","slug":"doraville-police-shoot-man-who-took-over-a-patrol-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=46710","title":{"rendered":"Doraville police shoot man who took over a patrol car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"\/tag\/Doraville\">DORAVILLE<\/a> &#8212; The GBI is investigating a police shooting that occurred Thursday morning after a traffic stop in Doraville. One man was shot and has sustained injuries. No officers were injured during the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the GBI, preliminary information indicates that at about 11:50 a.m., Doraville Police officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a van on Chamblee Tucker Road in Doraville. The van was known to be driven by 41-year-old Walfre Bautista Miranda who had active felony warrants.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GBI officials say when officers attempted to stop the van, Miranda rammed into a patrol car by reversing into it, then pulled forward. Officers attempted to box Miranda in to prevent him from leaving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to police, Miranda then got out of the van with a machete in his hand and\u00a0advanced towards an officer. He was able to get inside and take control of the patrol car with access to all weapons inside, including a rifle. At that time, officers shot Miranda and he was taken into custody. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miranda was taken to a local hospital where he\u00a0is being treated for injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GBI will conduct an independent investigation of the officer involved shooting. Once complete, the case file will be given to the DeKalb County District Attorney\u2019s Office for review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the 8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0officer involved shooting the GBI has been asked to investigate in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=32]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DORAVILLE &#8212; The GBI is investigating a police shooting that occurred Thursday morning after a traffic stop in Doraville. One man was shot and has sustained injuries. No officers were injured during the incident.\u00a0 According to the GBI, preliminary information indicates that at about 11:50 a.m., Doraville Police officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":46711,"comment_status":"closed","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":[8487,9078],"class_list":["post-46710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-dekalb-county","tag-doraville","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46710","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=46710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}