Washington - A law enforcement official said Thursday that a
suspect sought in a police shooting in the US southern state of
Georgia is dead.
Minquell Lembrick, 32, was found dead inside a house that was the
scene of a stand-off with a special weapons and tactics team Thursday
morning, local media reported, quoting Sumter County Coroner Greg
Hancock.
A law enforcement official said Lembrick died of a self-inflicted
wound to the head, according to the Telegraph in Macon, Georgia.
The manhunt for Lembrick began after a police officer was shot and
killed and another was wounded Wednesday in the town of Americus,
about 200 kilometres south of Atlanta. Lembrick was considered armed
and dangerous. Parts of the town, including Georgia Southwestern
State University, were placed on lockdown.
Lembrick allegedly shot and killed officer Nicholas Smarr, 25, when
Smarr and officer Jody Smith of the campus police department
responded to a domestic dispute at a flat near the campus, according
to a release from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Police said Lembrick fled after firing on Smarr and Smith.
According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, Smarr is the 136th US
police officer to be killed in the line of duty this year.