Deputy, another man killed in Douglas County shooting

<p>A deputy died after being shot in the head in a shooting that also killed another man.</p><p>Deputy Blake Gammill, 30, was airlifted to Atlanta Medical Center on Thursday night, where he was pronounced dead.</p><p>The incident began around 10:30 p.m. when authorities went to a home in Douglas County to serve a search and arrest warrant against Jimmy Bilbo, a former Douglas County deputy who was accused last year of child molestation.</p><p>The deputies were about to take Bilbo into custody when his stepfather appeared out of a back room and opened fire, hitting the deputy in the face. Authorities returned fire, killing Bilbo's stepfather, who was identified as Gerald Greene.</p><p>Bilbo was not hurt in the shooting and was taken into custody. He had been free on bond in the child molestation case. But deputies came to his home because he had been seen leaving a mall with a juvenile that afternoon, authorities said.</p><p>Officials said Gammill was an eight-year veteran of the force and is survived by an ex-wife and two daughters, ages 18 months and 3 years. Gammill had planned to remarry on April 23.</p><p>Gammill was the first Douglas County deputy to be killed in the line of duty in nearly six years. On May 21, 1999, Deputy Ron King was killed when a van driven by a suspected drunken driver turned into the path of his police motorcycle.</p><p>The department's chaplain, the Rev. Wayne Rogers, a Baptist minister, called Gammill "the ultimate professional law enforcement person. Blake was an exceptional young man who was well-liked. There was no doubt where you stood with Blake. He was always there for you."</p><p>He said Gammill was very involved with his daughters, even though he was divorced and the girls live with their mother in Albany.</p><p>"Every weekend he was off, he would burn up the roads between here and Albany seeing those girls, and it was the first thing he would talk to you about when you saw him the next week," Rogers said.</p>