A police officer and two others were killed in a shooting in Georgia on Tuesday night.
Officers had responded to a call reporting a drive-by shooting near the 3600 block of Jervis Court in Rex at around 8.40 p.m., the Clayton County Police Department said in a post on Facebook.
A secondary call advised that a woman was lying motionless in the yard, the post added, and a third call then came in advising a juvenile male had been shot at a secondary location.
By this time, officers had arrived on scene and were trying to locate the juvenile and render aid to the female victim in the front yard.
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Officers received fire from an unknown location while trying to locate the juvenile victim and render aid to the female victim, police said.
Three people have died, including Clayton County field training officer Henry Laxson.
Another Clayton County police officer, Alex Chandler, was shot in the hand, police said, while a juvenile victim is in a critical, but stable condition.
Police said the suspect in the shooting was killed during the exchange of gunfire with law enforcement.
The investigation is ongoing.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
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