A security guard at the Honduran consulate near Atlanta was shot and killed Monday by a gunman who refused to hand over his weapon before entering the building and instead shot the agent, the foreign minister said. Honduras.
Authorities in the Atlanta suburb of Doraville reported that the suspect was in custody and that another person had been injured.
The Honduran Minister of Foreign Affairs, Eduardo Enrique Reina, explained at a press conference in Tegucigalpa that the suspect was of Honduran nationality and the private security guard was of Mexican origin.
“The individual refused to comply and unfortunately pulled out his gun and opened fire, fatally wounding this security guard with five shots,” Reina said.
The security guard managed to close the door, preventing the armed man from entering and possibly preventing more victims, the minister added.
A Honduran witness waiting to enter the consulate wrote down the license plate number of the fleeing suspect and reported it to police, Reina said.
The suspect was being questioned at the Doraville Police Department and the injured person was being treated at the hospital, Doraville city spokeswoman Emily Heenan said.
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