The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into a deadly officer-involved shooting that left one man dead and a deputy injured in Cherokee County.
According to the GBI, the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office requested the investigation following the incident, which happened around 7 p.m. on October 25 at a home on Whisperwood Trail in Acworth.
Deputies had been called to the home for a welfare check when they encountered 26-year-old Andre Alvear at the front door. Investigators say Alvear briefly spoke with the deputies before shutting the door, then reopened it and lunged at one of them with a knife, hitting the deputy in the face…