Richmond County Deputy Shedree Woods flipped his car while speeding toward a gunshot victim in Harrisburg on Wednesday who authorities initially believed could have been an officer, but later proved to be a naked man.
Nobody was quite sure what had happened in Harrisburg when the emergency call came in, but Deputy Woods was in a hurry to get there just in case. He ended up putting his own life in danger.
The car lay overturned near the 1500 block of Broad Street as medics tended to the officer, who was later treated at the Medical College of Georgia Hospital trauma unit and released.
Meanwhile, a few blocks up Broad Street, investigators were trying to determine why a young man was shot, possibly in a home in the 200 block of Lockhart Lane.
Police said the man, whose name was not immediately released pending notification of next of kin, was found shot in the arm and leg and wearing no clothes in the 200 block of Metcalf Street.
Investigator Tom Johnson said he had run from a home on Lockhart Lane, jumped over a fence and landed on a woman's car before collapsing on Metcalf Street.
Christa Jackson, whose mom lives at the Metcalf Street house, saw the young man catapult over the fence and hit the car.
"He was naked, you know, covering himself up," she said. "He was probably doing something he wasn't supposed to be doing."
A male suspect has been identified in the shooting, Investigator Paul Godden said.
Reach Adam Folk or Justin Boron at (706) 724-0851.
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