Jasper, Georgia– Police in Georgia said they were responding to a shooting Tuesday at a Virginia clinic, and at least one person was airlifted to the hospital.
Jasper police were dispatched to the VA clinic around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, the city said in a statement on its Facebook page. Officers found the suspected shooter and confronted the suspect, who was shot, the statement said.
One of the victims was found at the scene and airlifted to hospital.
Calls to the Pickens County VA clinic Tuesday afternoon were routed to different recordings with no one answering the phone.
The outpatient clinic in Jasper offers services including primary care and specialty health services, including laboratory, telehealth and mental health, according to its website.
Jasper, with a population of about 4,600, is located about 60 miles north of downtown Atlanta. Signs on the highway through town call it Georgia’s “First Mountain City,” as the Appalachian Mountains begin to emerge in that area along Georgia 400.
Photos published by the local Pickens County Progress newspaper showed more than a half-dozen law enforcement officers wearing tactical vests near a mall in the city.
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Martin reported from Kennesaw, Georgia.