According to police, a deputy sheriff in the US state of Georgia died on Friday as a result of injuries he sustained while executing an arrest warrant.
Carroll County Sheriff's Investigator Taylor Bristow was shot Tuesday while assisting with a Georgia Bureau of Investigations investigation, according to a Facebook post from the agency.
Officers were attempting to execute an arrest warrant related to a child sexual exploitation investigation when Christopher Bly, 40, shot Bristow and then himself, authorities said. Bly was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to a GBI press release, investigators seized several electronic devices at the scene that contained child sexual abuse material.
Bristow, 30, was flown to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, where he died.
Carroll County is located about 49 miles west of Atlanta, near the Alabama border.
“He served our community with unwavering passion and dedicated his life to protecting the citizens of Carroll County. We are deeply saddened and at a loss for words,” the Carroll County Sheriff's Department said in a Facebook post Friday.
