Police: Suspect in Georgia Cop-Killing Took His Own Life

By George

(USA TODAY) – The suspect in the shooting of two south Georgia police officers shot and killed himself Thursday as heavily armed officers surrounded a house in Americus, Ga., where he was holed up.

Police heard a single gunshot inside the house and tried for more than an hour to make contact with the suspect, 32-year-old Minquell Lembrick. Police eventually used a robot to open the door of the residence and found Lembrick dead of what authorities said was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Lembrick was the subject of a massive manhunt after he allegedly shot and killed an Americus, Ga., police officer, Nicholas Smarr, 25, and critically wounded Georgia Southwestern State University officer Jodi Smith, who were responding to a report of domestic violence Wednesday morning. The two officers were high school friends who had attended the police training academy together.

Following Wednesday’s shooting, Lembrick made a series of posts to what appears to have been his Facebook page, including a four-second video that indicated he did not expect to be taken alive: “I’m gonna miss y’all folk, man.” The post was later taken down.

Vernon Keenan, director of the …Read the Rest

Source:: Patriot Outdoor News