The non-fatal police shooting of a black man after a high-speed chase in Newnan, Georgia, on Monday was the 50th officer-involved shooting this year that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has been asked to investigate
Azavious Lavonta Echols, a 25-year-old black man from Woodbury, was shot in the leg by a Newnan police officer after Echols reportedly reached for a handgun in his possession, according to the GBI's preliminary information.That 50-mark is a slight increase on the number of officer-involved shootings that the GBI investigated at this point the past two years.
Law enforcement agencies in Georgia are not required to ask the GBI to investigate police shootings, so the totals are a slight undercount. Miles said that a"large majority" of law enforcement agencies in the state do so, but some departments still do not.High-speed chase leads to shootingThe incident began at about 9 p.m. Monday when a motorcyclist, later identified as Echols, led police on a high-speed pursuit exceeding 100 mph on Highway 34 in Newnan, according to the GBI.
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