GBI: Milledgeville police shooting, body cam video available

Update: GBI identified the person shot as 50-year-old Antonio Craig Martin

MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into a police shooting that happened in Milledgeville Wednesday morning.

The Milledgeville Police Department requested help from the GBI to investigate the shooting. Baldwin County Sheriff Bill Massee says the incident happened on the Oconee Greenway Park.

What led to the shooting?

Investigators say that around 1:40 a.m., a burglary happened at the Jet #61 gas station on North Columbia Street in Milledgeville. Officers issued a BOLO for the vehicle following the burglary. 

Investigators say that at around 4 a.m., a Milledgeville police officer recognized the vehicle matching the BOLO at the Jet #29 gas station on E. Hancock Street in Milledgeville. 

A GBI news release states:

The officer attempted to stop the vehicle, at which time a chase ensued and the vehicle wrecked in the woods shortly thereafter. The officer heard a loud noise and discharged his duty weapon, striking Antonio Craig Martin, 50, of Atlanta. 

The news releases Martin was airlifted to Medical Center Navicent Health in Macon. The hospital lists him in stable condition.

According to a Twitter post from GBI Public Affairs Director Nelly Miles, this makes the 68th police shooting investigation for 2020.

Stay with 41NBC as this story develops.