18-Year-Old Shot After Standoff In Brantley County
POSTED: Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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A SWAT standoff with an 18-year-old man with a shotgun in Brantley County Monday night ended with the suspect shot and hospitalized in critical condition.The confrontation began about 7 p.m. just off Highway 82 on the east side of Nahunta. When officers arrived, the man, later identified as Christopher Cory Lenning, ran into an industrial park.When Brantley County deputies caught up with him, they said Lenning pointed the shot gun at them. As the deputies took cover behind their cars, Lenning ran into the woods and ended up on Paloma Street.As Lenning continued to threaten officers, SWAT officers from Glynn County and troopers from Georgia State Patrol joined the standoff.According to Brantley County Sheriff Robert Thomas, when Lemming pointed his shotgun at two SWAT officers and threatened to kill them, one of them fired three times. One of the .45-caliber bullets struck Lenning in the face.Lenning was transported to a Waycross hospital, then transferred to a Savannah hospital.The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was called to investigated the shooting, which standard practice for shootings involving local law enforcement officers.
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