<p>About 2,000 people, including hundreds of police officers, attended funeral services Monday for a Douglas County sheriff's deputy killed in a shootout while serving a warrant.</p><p>Law enforcement honor guards from DeKalb, Cobb, Fulton counties and the city of Atlanta lined the stairs and surrounded the packed sanctuary at Central Baptist Church.</p><p>Officers from neighboring Carroll and Paulding counties volunteered to patrol Douglas County and guard its jail so local officers could attend the services for Blake Gammill.</p><p>Gammill, 30, was the first deputy to be killed in the line of duty in the county, just west of Atlanta.</p><p>He was fatally shot Thursday night after authorities went to serve a search and arrest warrant against Jimmy Bilbo, a former Douglas County deputy accused of violating conditions for bond on a child molestation charge.</p><p>Deputies said they were about to take Bilbo into custody when his stepfather, Gerald Greene, appeared from a back room with a gun. One shot hit Gammill in the face. Other officers returned fire, killing Greene, 69.</p><p>Sheriff Phil Miller called Gammill "a man who wasn't afraid to do his job."</p><p>"He pulled people from burning cars. He was a man that caught armed robbers. He did all the things that we asked of him," Miller said.</p><p>Miller also announced that the sheriff's administrative building would be renamed the Blake Gammill Memorial Building.</p><p>Some officers from Boston and New York City, who initially came to Atlanta to attend a hockey game benefit for fammilies of officers who died during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, made the extra trip to Douglasville to pay their respects.</p><p>"We take care of one another and we have to support each other," said New York Police Lt. Michael Giovanniello.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x2866694)</p>
