GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Gainesville

On Friday, Sept. 20, 2019, at approximately 5pm, the GBI Cleveland Office was requested by the Gainesville Police Department to conduct an officer-involved shooting investigation.  Preliminary information indicates that just prior to 5pm, 911 received a call reporting a man, later identified as 21-year-old Adam Paul English of Oakwood, Georgia, waving a gun and walking in the area of 1075 Jesse Jewell Parkway at Northeast Georgia Physicians Group Surgical Associates.  This area was near the Northeast Georgia Medical Center. Multiple Gainesville PD officers responded to the scene and located English. English was given verbal commands to drop the weapon, but he did not comply with them. English was shot multiple times by two Gainesville Officers. Officers rendered aid and English was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.  A gun was located at the scene. No officers were injured in this incident. An autopsy of English will be conducted by the GBI Medical Examiner’s Office. The GBI will continue its independent investigation. Once complete, it will be turned over to the Northeastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office for review. This is the 61st officer-involved shooting investigation that the GBI has been requested to investigate in 2019.