Report: Shooting near PGA Tour event
A man who drove through a barricade near Atlanta's East Lake Golf Club, site of the PGA Tour Championship, was shot by a Georgia state trooper while dragging another trooper along, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The paper said the incident occurred when troopers stopped a car driven by Gerald Williams as he allegedly tried to proceed into a barricaded area at roughly 7 p.m. on the final day of the event. Williams was not authorized to drive into the lot, investigators told the newspaper.
Rather than stopping his gold Saturn, Williams instead tried to drive off with a trooper partly inside the car, forcing another trooper to discharge his weapon twice, the Journal-Constitution reported.
The report stated that Williams was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital with what appeared to be non-life threatening injuries, and the trooper who was dragged was not seriously injured.
Charges are pending against Williams.
Bill Haas won Sunday's Tour Championship over Hunter Mahan on the third extra hole of a sudden-death playoff.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.
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