GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Law officers charged one man with murder and searched for other suspects Monday after a Georgia sheriff’s deputy was killed in a late-night shootout northeast of Atlanta.
Hall County Deputy Nicholas Dixon, 28, was killed exchanging gunfire with people who crashed a stolen car Sunday night in Gainesville, Sheriff Gerald Crouch said at a Monday news conference.
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