Officer wounded in standoff was shot by police gun
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Posted 7:58AM on Tuesday, August 27, 2002
DULUTH - A Duluth officer wounded in a shootout with a man holed up in his house last week was struck by a police supervisor's bullet, authorities said. <br>
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Officer Jill Manders, an eight-year veteran of the Duluth Police Department, was shot in the hip and thigh during a standoff with Roman Khaimov, 38, who was later killed. <br>
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Gwinnett District Attorney Danny Porter said Monday that the bullet that hit Manders matched an uncommon weapon carried by Duluth police supervisors - not Khaimov's weapon or guns carried by officers. Porter said he did not know which of about three supervisors at the scene fired the shot, but ballistics tests would be performed. <br>
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``It was clearly an accident,'' Porter said. <br>
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Khaimov fired shots at his estranged wife at a nearby park, then held police at bay for two hours from inside his house.