CALHOUN, Ga. -- An officer was shot and woman killed after a confrontation in front of the BP gas station in Calhoun at the corner of Wall and E Line streets.
Miles said the officer was shot in the arm and taken to a local hospital where he was treated and kept for observation.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesperson Nelly Miles said Calhoun Officer, Jeremy Thompson, was at the gas station around 3 p.m. when he noticed a woman was short on change. Thompson gave the woman the extra change she needed and they both walked outside.
Miles said that's when Thompson smelled marijuana and approached 27-year-old Tameka LaShay Simpson. Simpson was the passenger of the woman he gave change to. At that point, Miles said Thompson called in a suspicious vehicle.
That's when Officer Joe Yother arrived for backup. Miles said Thompson asked Simpson to show her I.D. and during the encounter, Simpson pulled out her firearm and began shooting.
Miles said one bullet hit Yother in the arm and then ricocheted into a phone in his chest pocket. Officers returned fire ultimately killing Simpson.
The driver was taken into custody on unrelated charges.
Miles said the GBI will conduct an independent investigation to determine what occurred during the incident. When the investigation is complete, it will be turned over to the Cherokee Judicial Circuit for review.
This was the third shooting involving an officer in Georgia in two days and the 88th in 2018 alone.
At the beginning of the investigation, the GBI identified officer Yother as the officer who gave the other woman change in the store. Further investigation revealed that was not the case.