MACON, Ga. — Macon police officers shot a teenager to death Saturday when he tried to run over them with a stolen sport utility vehicle, they said.
Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones identified the man as Bradley Gastin, 18.
Macon police spokesman Sgt. Zac Self said the incident happened shortly before 5 p.m. near a nursing home.
Earlier, he said, two young men carjacked a maroon 2000 Ford Expedition. The carjackers took the man who had been driving the Expedition to a nearby corner and put him out of the vehicle.
Police later followed the SUV, shooting the driver when he tried to run over officers and rammed a police car.
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Good shoot. One less thug for us to have to deal with and pay for for another 50 years.
The punk should have rented "Macon County Line" and watched it before he tried something like this over in those woods......
Goot shoot! One less punk on the streets.
this is the action that going to put an end to most crime.
Shoot them thug, good job macon
You know Justin Elmore could have been an example to this punk. If only the thug would have learned from Elmore. You try and run over the police with a two ton bullet, you're gonna get several .40 caliber bullets returned in your general direction. Let Elmore and this punk be an example to all the other punks out there; Do the Crime, do the time or RIP!!!!!!!!
EatMore, Macon is in Bibb County.
Ooops, but it was merely an attempt at humor. Appreciate the catch...but I'll leave the post there. Thanks. I really only needed this name for the Florida-South Carolina football game yesterday. w00t!
lead parade......
Thank you to our fine officers in Macon for the world a better place and risking their own lives to ensure ours are better. It is nice to see the article not even mention the race of the suspect since it shouldn't matter either way as most decent people certainly support the outcome of thugs such as this getting what they justly deserve without wasting time or endangering others.
Nice shot, guys.
I wonder if it was a black officer shooting a white suspect? If so, then those cops are nothing but RACISTS and deserve to be tried for murder themselves. I'll bet they had hatred for a white kid in their hearts and on their minds when they gunned the young man down in cold blood.....Sounds like something from Justus4, doesn't it?
When you commit felonies, you'd better expect that you will be shot.
Thugs pay attention!
humbleopinion what does the color of the officers have to do with it! Come on! That is sooo old and dated..
Must have been a white kid. No comment about how the police did something wrong. Where are u justass?
number five and six are in limbo until later.
wow, i hate to see your reactions when your child makes an idiot mistake and is gunned down by the police.
Wait until this happens to U know who. See how this article is well-hidden and short, but when it happens to U know, it's going to be front page. Of course "we" know what happened here (it's the same ol' story) but when it happens - and it will - what the difference....can't wait for that one.
Shoot! You mean we don't get to take care of this stupid brat for 50 or 60 years? Aw, heck!