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State Patrol officer: I did not want to die in struggle with suspect
DA to decide soon to pursue case on shooting after June car chase
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Captain Mark Perry, director of public Information for the Georgia Department of Public Safety, gives a press briefing June 25 outside of the Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville. A subject was shot and killed and another was detained during a foot pursuit after the two men in a Ford Explorer fled a road check near Industrial Boulevard. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Jumping down into the creek near Industrial Boulevard in Gainesville, A.J. Allen shouted at a fleeing suspect to stop before using his Taser twice. As the Georgia State Patrol sergeant reportedly struggled to detain Rodrigo Guardiola, he said he saw the pictures of his wife and children circle in front of his face. “I did not want to die in that muddy water, but at that second I feared it was happening,” Allen wrote in his report when Guardiola allegedly attempted to drown him.