Excerpted from the ENN Emergency Service
Report-03/09/97-Vol.1, No.068
Three GBI Agents Wounded by
Barricaded Gunman
By ENN News Team
LINCOLNTON, GEORGIA (ENN) - A gunman was killed in shootout with
police on Saturday during a 24-hour standoff at his rural mobile
home, located about 100 miles east of Atlanta. The gunman was
identified as Wayne Miller. Miller wounded three police officers
in a 15-minute gun battle just after 1000 EST when agents of the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) tried to end the barricade
situation that began on Friday afternoon.
Police had tried to negotiate with the subject throughout the
night. In an effort to storm the mobile home and apprehend the
subject, officers threw in tear-gas canisters into the mobile
home. Miller responded by opening fire with a shotgun and he
threw out a hand grenade that failed to explode.
Three GBI agents were wounded by shotgun pellets and were treated
and released from an area hospital.
When Miller threw out the hand grenade, police opened fire on the
mobile home. After the shootout, police waited for several hours
without further response from the subject. Police then used a
remote-controlled robot that was equipped with a camera to see
the subject before entering the home and finding Miller dead.
The standoff with Miller began on Friday after Georgia State
Police and Lincoln County Sheriff's deputies arrested another man
in an undercover drug bust that netted about three pounds of
marijuana. A search of that suspect's home uncovered another 35
pounds of the drug and evidence was found that identified Wayne
Miller was the source of the narcotics. Police went to Miller's
home to question him and he pulled a gun on GBI agents. The
officers took cover and the standoff ensued.
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