Video shows him screaming “Help me!” and “Kill me!” before he “forcibly rushed inside” a neighbor’s home and was fatally shot during what authorities are calling a possible mental health or drug-induced episode.
An off-duty Atlanta police officer is dead after he allegedly attempted to break into a neighbor’s home before sunrise, with the local Sheriff’s department speaking out about “widespread speculation and misinformation” about the incident.
Aubree Horton, an investigator for the Atlanta Police Department, was shot and killed inside his neighbor’s home in the early morning hours of October 4, after allegedly pounding on their door and running inside the house.
Per Douglas County Sheriff Tim Pounds, via F OX 5 , authorities believe Horton “may have been experiencing a mental health episode or under the influence of narcotics at the time of the incident.”
The department also released security camera video displaying Horton’s concerning behavior in the moments just before the fatal shooting, along with a lengthy statement.