Overview
- Deputies and state fire investigators went to a Ga. 20 Spur home to execute a search warrant tied to a death investigation.
- After flashbangs were deployed, 39-year-old Dylan Burl Rice exited holding what deputies believed was a long gun; officers used foam and pepper rounds before firing when he allegedly pointed it toward them.
- Investigators later determined Rice was holding a pellet air rifle, and he died from his injuries.
- Officials confirmed Rice was a person of interest in his mother Lynda Miller’s death in a suspicious Thanksgiving fire.
- The Georgia Bureau of Investigation opened its officer-involved shooting probe, noting this was the 75th such incident in 2025 and the 32nd fatality.