U.S. Marshal Dies Attempting to Capture An Attempted Cop-Killer

By Bob Owens

A U.S. Marshal was been killed early this morning in a Georgia trailer park when his ballistic vest failed to stop a rifle bullet.

Law enforcement officers across the nation are morning the death of a U.S. marshal based in Macon who was killed in the line of duty.

Just before 9 a.m. Friday, Long County law enforcement officers responded to the fatal shooting of a U.S. deputy marshal.

Pat Carothers, 53, was wounded while serving an arrest warrant near the rear of the Spring Creek Mobile Home Park on Tibet Road in Ludowici.

The suspect, Dontrell Montese Carter, was armed with a rifle as marshals came to serve a warrant for attempted murder of police officers, domestic violence and unlawfully discharging a weapon in Sumter County, S.C.

Carter also was fatally wounded. A news release from the U.S. Marshals Service says the suspect was killed by officers who returned fire.

“It’s terrible,” said John Edgar of the Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force that Carothers commanded. “He was just a great family man, a great employee, a great mentor and a great leader.”

Carothers, the commander of the Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force was wearing his protective vest when he was hit twice, once at the …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms