Gunman Killed And One Person Hospitalized After Va Clinic Shooting In Georgia, Police Say

A gunman was changeable and killed Tuesday successful a shooting astatine a Department of Veterans Affairs session successful a mini municipality astatine nan ft of nan Blue Ridge mountains successful Georgia.

Jasper constabulary were sent to nan VA session astir 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. Officers confronted nan gunman, who was changeable and killed, authorities said.

The gunman who was killed is from nan Jasper area, Jasper Police Chief Matt Dawkins told reporters astatine nan scene. Details astir him were not instantly released.

“We don’t cognize what led up to it,” Dawkins said.

Officers had responded to a study of shots fired astatine nan clinic, nan main said. The fishy was changeable extracurricular nan clinic.

“Everybody successful there, arsenic acold arsenic I know, cipher other is injured, nan group inside, conscionable 1 victim,” Dawkins said.

He did not stock further details, but said nan Federal Bureau of Investigation will beryllium investigating on pinch nan Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

When asked astir nan suspect’s background, a Pickens County sheriff’s spokesperson said he did not cognize whether he had a subject background.

Calls to nan Pickens County VA session were routed to various recordings connected Tuesday day and nary 1 answered nan phone.

The outpatient session successful Jasper offers services that see superior attraction and specialty wellness services, including laboratory, telehealth and intelligence wellness care, according to its website.

Jasper, a municipality of astir 5,000 people, is astir 60 miles (97 km) northbound of downtown Atlanta. Signs connected a road done nan municipality telephone it Georgia’s “First Mountain City” arsenic nan Blue Ridge Mountains travel into position arsenic motorists from Atlanta caput north.

Photos from nan section newspaper, nan Pickens Progress, showed much than a half-dozen rule enforcement officers responding to nan scene, wearing tactical vests adjacent a portion promenade successful nan town.

The session opened successful nan summertime of 2020, nan U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said successful a news merchandise announcing its expansive opening.

“The caller Pickens County VA Clinic will summation entree and guarantee that our Veterans proceed to person nan high-quality wellness attraction that they person earned and merit person to their home,” officials said successful nan release.