Police: 3 officers wounded in Atlanta street altercation that left suspect dead

ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities in Atlanta say three police officers were hospitalized with gunshot wounds after an altercation that left a man dead. Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum says officers responded at 5:15 p.m. Saturday to a report of an armed person and encountered a man with a handgun and a knife on Desoto Avenue. Schierbaum says a struggle resulted in the man being killed. One officer was shot in the shoulder, another was shot in the leg and the third suffered a grazing wound. The police did not immediately identity the deceased man. Separately, two people were shot and killed at a nightclub in the city’s Buckhead section. Four people were injured.