{"id":52138,"date":"2023-03-29T16:56:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T20:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=52138"},"modified":"2023-03-29T22:14:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T02:14:13","slug":"school-gunman-report-leads-to-police-shootout-in-douglas-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=52138","title":{"rendered":"School Gunman Report Leads to Police Shootout in Douglas County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The News: <\/strong>A man identified as Steven Blunt, 29, was shot and killed in a police shootout in Douglas County, following a report of a gunman at a Special Olympics event held at New Manchester High School. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is now involved in the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What Happened?: <\/strong>Douglas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputies were investigating an incident at New Manchester High School, where a Special Olympics event was taking place. At 12:11 p.m., they went to a home on Ferncrest Place and made contact with Steven Blunt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As deputies began to talk to Blunt, they say he pulled out a handgun and fired at them. A deputy returned fire, shooting Blunt, who later died at a hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why It Matters: <\/strong>This incident underscores the importance of addressing public safety concerns, especially in educational settings and during events involving vulnerable populations like the Special Olympics participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Next?: <\/strong>The GBI Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office will conduct an autopsy on Blunt. The GBI is conducting an independent investigation into the officer-involved shooting, and the case file will be handed over to the Douglas Judicial Circuit District Attorney&#8217;s Office for review upon completion. This marks the 25th officer-involved shooting investigated by the GBI in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=21]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The News: A man identified as Steven Blunt, 29, was shot and killed in a police shootout in Douglas County, following a report of a gunman at a Special Olympics event held at New Manchester High School. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is now involved in the case. What Happened?: Douglas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52163,"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":[8779],"class_list":["post-52138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-douglas-county","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52138","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}