Off-Duty Cop Kills Gunman Who Shot Him In The Neck: Police

ATLANTA — An off-duty policeman and a gunman shot one another Monday night in a deadly incident in Downtown Atlanta.

The gunman, 25-year-old Jamon McCall, was killed on the scene and the officer, a Molena Police Department reserve officer was taken to a nearby area to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

While Atlanta Police responded to the shooting, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating because the incident is an officer-involved shooting.

According to police, around 10 p.m. on Monday, officers answered the call about gunfire at 320 Luckie Street. Officers arrived to find a dead man — McCall, whom authorities said is from Alabama — and a woman who had been graced by a shot, police said.

Officers later learned about a man who arrived at Grady Memorial Hospital with a gunshot wound to his neck. GBI agents found a gun on McCall, according to reports from the agency.

Atlanta Police initially reported that the gunfire possibly was the result of an altercation between the two men.

According to the GBI, the policeman was working an off-duty job enforcing parking for ATL Plus and was sitting in his patrol vehicle “when he was approached by a man who shot a firearm at the officer, hitting the officer in the neck.”

The investigation remains ongoing.