GEORGIA — Two Peach County Sheriff’s Deputies were reportedly shot in an ambush near Byron, Georgia Sunday night.
Local media reports one of the wounded Deputies has died.
The Telegraph news agency in Macon reported: “J.T. Ricketson, special agent in charge of the GBI office in Perry, said the sheriff’s office contacted him about 6 p.m. requesting assistance with a shooting. He said deputies were responding to “a dispute between neighbors.”
“When they arrived, they were under gunfire,” Ricketson said at the scene. “They returned fire.” “
At least one suspect was taken into custody.
Identities were not immediately released.
