US police shooting suspect found dead

Published Dec 8, 2016

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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.

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