Another Law Enforcement Officer has made the ultimate sacrifice while serving his community. 30 year old Officer Antwan Toney was shot and killed while responding to a call near a school.
KCKPD’s thoughts & prayers are with Police Officer Antwan Toney’s Family & the entire Gwinnett County Police Department, Georgia. pic.twitter.com/FqOAOXfblO
— Terry Zeigler (@KCKPDChief) October 21, 2018
Fox4 reports that a police officer in Gwinnett County, Georgia, was shot and killed while answering a call about a suspicious vehicle on Saturday afternoon, according to a department spokesman.
Officer Antwan Toney, who had just turned 30, was responding with another officer to a call of possible marijuana use, said Jake Smith of the Gwinnett County Police Department.
“There was no particular red flags in this call,” Smith said.
Toney was shot at from inside the vehicle as soon as he approached the car in a parking lot at a middle school. He was hit one time. His partner dragged him away, Smith said, and he died at a hospital.
The suspect’s four-door black sedan sped away and crashed about a mile away. There were as many as four people inside the car, Smith said. There are no suspects in custody.
Chief of Police Butch Ayers said investigators were talking to multiple “persons of interest.” Ayers didn’t say when authorities classified them that way. He added that no warrants had been issued in the case.
Smith said the shooting happened so quickly the officers did not have time to draw their guns. Other officers who had responded as backups fired on the car’s occupants, but it is unclear whether any were hit or how many shots were fired.
Detectives were…
Breaking : Gwinnett County Police interviewing several “persons of interest” in murder of Officer Antwan Toney. Chief says they are following up on multiple leads. No warrants issued so far .@wsbtv #gwinnettcounty pic.twitter.com/SlbgND1brk
— Tony Thomas (@TonyThomasWSB) October 21, 2018