PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. — A traffic stop in Paulding County led to a chase and a shootout between a deputy and the suspect, the sheriff's office said.
It started just before 10 a.m. at the intersection of Macland Road and Bobo Road in Dallas, Georgia. After deputies walked up to the pickup truck, they saw the driver, identified as 36-year-old Billy Wayne Denton of Rockmart, who pulled out a pistol right in front of the deputies.
That's when the sheriff's office said "gunfire erupted between the suspect and deputies."
Denton ran from the scene, hitting the deputies' patrol car and ensuing a chase that ultimately ended at West Memorial Drive adjacent to Bolton Furniture when more gunfire was exchanged.
After he was removed from his vehicle following the gunfire, deputies rendered first aid while taking him into custody, according to authorities.
Denton was taken a hospital where he died as a result of his injuries, the sheriff's office said. They did not say what the initial traffic stop was for.
No deputies were injured.
An 11Alive viewer saw the end of the chase and heard what she believed to be a shot fired. Photos and video from her show several law enforcement vehicles and three deputies with guns drawn pointing at a pickup truck.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is handling the case for the Paulding County Sheriff's Office.
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