Wednesday, January 16, 2008

ATLANTA: 2 OFF-DUTY OFFICERS SLAIN. WHY?



Investigators work at the scene where two police officers were killed Wednesday in DeKalb County, Georgia.

Police hunt suspects after two officers gunned down


ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Two off-duty police officers were shot and killed Wednesday while working security at an apartment complex near Atlanta, Georgia, the police chief said.

The officers, who were in uniform, were responding to a call about a suspicious person when someone fired at them shortly before 1 a.m., said Chief Terrell Bolton of the DeKalb County Police Department.

One officer died at the scene, the other at a hospital.

"They didn't stand a chance," Bolton told reporters.

Authorities are looking for two men who ran from the scene after the shooting at the Glenwood Gardens apartments, about eight miles east of downtown Atlanta.

"They know who they are," Bolton said. "They know we're hunting them down."

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