Before shots rang out, Grier described a clash between the assume and two girls in an interview with 11Alive. Three people were shot in that affair.
He also stated to reporters that he had a psychotic episode and that he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and had been off his medicines for two weeks.
Grier said during the appointment:” Best now I’m in an extraordinary mode”.
Days after the shooting, Grier supposedly hijacked a passenger vehicle in downtown Atlanta. He is accused of fatally shooting one man and leading authorities on a hunt through three districts. He then faces more than two hundred criminal charges, including death.
Grier, 39, was detained on Tuesday in affluent DeKalb County after authorities stopped the vehicle, and he was booked into the Fulton County Jail early on Wednesday.
He was being held without bond, and there was no mention of a solicitor who may discuss the allegations in online jail records. Families who might be able to comment could n’t immediately be identified.
Authorities in Atlanta responded to a report of gunfire on a vehicle and a potential hostage situation shortly after 4:30 on Tuesday. The man forced the bus driver to drive off when an agent arrived about a minute after and confronted the suspect, according to Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum.
The van struck several vehicles before following suit and crossed onto the wrong part of a street while police were on the lookout for the driver. In neighboring DeKalb County, where information film showed Grier being escorted out of the vehicle in cuffs, the vehicle finally came to a stop miles away.
Schierbaum said there were 17 folks on the vehicle, including the driver. An child victim was discovered with a gunshot wound as officials cleared the vehicle of people. Officials said that man, whose name was not immediately released, was taken to a doctor and died from injury.
A man was shot by an off-duty police officer before the incident occurred in a Peachtree Center mall food court earlier on Tuesday afternoon, according to authorities. According to Schierbaum, the three subjects and the suspect were taken to facilities for treatment, but they were all expected to survive.
Grier is accused of murdering one person and injuring one motor car, injuring one, injuring one, inflicting 14 counts of theft, in possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, and in possession of a knife or weapon while committing a crime.
