Police: FBI agent shot, one person dead in southwest Atlanta

(Fox 5)

An FBI agent was shot and one person is dead after federal law enforcement attempted to serve an arrest warrant a west Atlanta business.

Several law enforcement sources have told FOX 5 News this is related to the shooting of a Banks County deputy earlier in the week.

It happened around 4 p.m. Friday at Holmes Plaza located in the 2400 block of Martin Luther King Jr Drive near. SKYFOX 5 flew over the scene shortly before 5 p.m. and found the parking lot surrounding the Checks Cashed business blocked with crime scene tape.

Authorities said the agent, whose name has not yet been released suffered non-life threatening injures and was rushed to a nearby hospital.

Police said there was one person dead at the scene, but details surrounding that death were not immediately available.

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