The GBI investigated 102 shootings by law enforcement officers during the past year, including 48 which were fatal. The number of shootings investigated was lower in 2023 than in 2022, when 112 officer-involved shootings were reviewed, including 54 fatalities. The shootings include municipal police, county deputies, and Georgia State Patrol troopers in the line of duty.
In such cases, the GBI is brought in to conduct an independent investigation of the facts of the shootings. Among the more recent cases this year, was one that occurred Dec. 3 in Bethlehem, when Barrow County sheriff’s deputies shot and killed 60-year-old Robert Reynolds Sr., a mechanic and father of three children. That shooting remains under investigation.
