Two off-duty police officers were shot and killed Wednesday while working security at an apartment complex near Atlanta, Georgia, the police chief said.
The officers, who were in uniform, were responding to a call about a suspicious person when someone fired at them shortly before 1 a.m., said Chief Terrell Bolton of the DeKalb County Police Department.
One officer died at the scene, the other at a hospital.
"They didn't stand a chance," Bolton told reporters.
Authorities are looking for two men who ran from the scene after the shooting at the Glenwood Gardens apartments, about eight miles east of downtown Atlanta.
"They know who they are," Bolton said. "They know we're hunting them down."
One of the officers had been with the DeKalb County Police Department for four years; the other had a slightly shorter tenure. Both have children.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
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