He remains at the Laurens County Jail as of Monday. It is believed that the ambush-style attack on Officer Harrison was retaliation for the incident and arrest of the man.įerguson faces a count each of murder, and aggravated stalking from a previous domestic incident, according to the GBI. He is a known associate of Damien Ferguson.

The man was arrested and taken to the Wheeler County Jail. The man did not comply which led to the officer discharging his Taser. Dylan Harrison, 26, of Dudley, Georgia, was working his first shift as a part-time officer with the Alamo Police Department in Wheeler County when he was fatally shot around 1 a.m. Officer Harrison attempted to place the man under arrest. The man got into a verbal altercation with Officer Harrison, that escalated to the man pushing the officer. Prince William County Police Officer Ashley Guindon died Saturday. Officer Harrison asked the man for his name and identification and the man refused. A Virginia police officer was shot and killed by an Army staff sergeant assigned to the Pentagon on the first day of street duty. Authorities suggested Ferguson ambushed Harrison during the officer’s first shift with the department as retaliation. The situation escalated to the officer tasering this man, officials said. A police officer was killed in what the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) has called an 'ambush-style' retaliation attack during his first shift, according to reports. They announced after his arrest that Harrison confronted another man at the Circle K across the street regarding a traffic violation. Investigators have said Ferguson shot Harrison outside the Alamo Police Department on Saturday morning at around 1 a.m. Despite the sadness that we have endured, I have found a sense of pride in seeing everyone pull together to right this tragic wrong.” His life was taken from him for simply doing his job. (AP) A man accused of gunning down a Georgia police officer during his first shift with the department ambushed him in retaliation for the officer’s arrest of an associate hours. “Officer Harrison was a husband, a son, and more importantly, he was a father of a six-month-old boy.

“As the police chief of Alamo, Georgia, I have never experienced a grief that I have felt since Officer Dylan Harrison’s life was taken in our small, quiet town,” said Chief Karen Zanders. As previously reported, the incident sparked a search that investigators say ended at Ferguson’s home on Sunday. Luke Ferguson, 43, shot and killed Officer Dylan Harrison, 26, for tasering the suspect’s “known associate,” according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Damien Ferguson, and Officer Dylan Harrison.Ī cop’s sudden and shocking murder was an ambush, say authorities.

Cop ambushed and killed on first shift