A Georgia police officer has been criminally charged after investigators say he pulled a gun on three people while responding to a call about an assault, officials said Tuesday.
Kenneth Bishop, a 60-year-old man from Swainsboro, Georgia, was arrested Monday and charged with aggravated assault and terroristic threats and acts.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said that the Soperton Police Department asked it to investigate Bishop’s actions in the July 26 incident.
Investigators say Bishop was responding to the assault call when he stopped a car occupied by three people who were relatives of friends of the assault victim. Bishop and the people in the car got into an argument, the GBI said, and Bishop pulled out his gun. He then pointed the gun at the car’s occupants while hitting the windows and threatening to shoot the car, GBI agents said.
Bishop was released from jail on $25,000 bail. Jail records don’t list a lawyer for Bishop and he didn’t immediately respond to emails on Tuesday. Soperton Police Chief James Mills did not respond to a phone message.
