Atlanta Police Officer Killed in Alleged Ambush
A Fulton County police officer was shot in the head and killed during a reported ambush near downtown Atlanta early Wednesday morning.
Just before 1 a.m., police officers responded to a report of shots fired at a house in Fairburn, Ga. By the time they arrived at the home, located about 30 minutes outside of downtown Atlanta, the suspect had fled and was reportedly roaming the neighborhood. Not long after, the officers came under fire in an attack police later described as an ambush.
Officer Terence Avery Green, a 22-year veteran, was shot in the back of the head and rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Another officer was shot, but the bullet hit his police radio and he escaped injury, according to WSB-TV. Officers returned fire and wounded the suspect, who was arrested and transported to the same hospital in stable condition. WSB-TV identified the suspect as Amanuel Menghesha.
"It was dark and it was foggy," Fulton police Assistant Chief Gary Stiles told WSB-TV. "[The officers] were doing their job, trying to protect this neighborhood from somebody that was shooting, and the way it appears to me, they were ambushed without warning."
The Washington Post notes that Green is apparently the first American law enforcement officer killed by gunfire in 2015.
