Sorry for the quick diary- didn't see any talk of this on the recent list.
From ajc.com
A Forsyth County sheriff’s deputy has been shot in the leg at the courthouse in Cumming, and a suspect is dead. Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporters and photographers are on the scene. Return to ajc.com for minute-by-minute updates on the situation.
2:35 p.m. - The courthouse and roads around it remain closed while the investigation continues.
1:30 p.m. - The sheriff’s office has posted the following message on the department’s Facebook page:
“We appreciate your patience and understanding while we collect the facts surrounding the Courthouse shooting that took place this morning. The downtown area and streets surrounding the Courthouse will be closed until further. The suspect was shot and is deceased at this time. A deputy was injured during the exchange of gun fire and is expected to be okay. No citizens or bystanders were injured. We will provide further information as it becomes available.”
1:14 p.m. - Deputies have still not cleared county employees to return to the courthouse and administration building to retrieve personal items.
1:10 p.m. - A deputy on the scene notified dispatchers to ask the county road department to have a dump truck loaded with dirt meet the GBI Bomb Squad at the courthouse. The deputy also requested two five-gallon buckets.
12:55 p.m. - Forsyth Sheriff Duane Piper released more details of the moments leading up to this morning’s courthouse shooting. He said suspect Dennis Marx was throwing out homemade smoke grenades, pepper spray grenades and homemade spike sticks in an effort to keep law enforcement personnel from stopping his approach to the courthouse.
Further down the page
12:15 p.m. - The sheriff has confirmed to Channel 2 that the suspect is Dennis Marx. The station reports that Marx has identified himself as a sovereign citizen, part of an anti-govenment group that has been tied to violent attacks on law enforcement around the country. He was due in court today to plead out on drug and weapons charges.
The bolding's mine. For those who don't know, the
sovereign citizencrazies grew out of the
Posse Comitatus crazies of the eighties. These guys would be pretty pitiful, if their delusions weren't getting folk killed.
Anyway, submitted for discussion.