Overview
- Police say the officer was driving to help a colleague struggling with a suspect when the patrol car struck a single-family home at 560 James P. Brawley Drive NW.
- Nearby residents broke a window and pulled the officer from the burning vehicle, and witnesses reported ammunition detonating inside the cruiser during the rescue.
- Atlanta Fire Rescue extinguished the car and house fires in roughly five to eight minutes and transported the officer to Grady Memorial Hospital in critical condition.
- The State Patrol’s collision reconstruction team is probing the cause, and officials have not confirmed whether any body or dash camera footage exists.
- APD has not released the officer’s name pending family notification, and the earlier officer was uninjured with the suspect taken into custody.