Motel employee charged with shooting at police

NORCROSS - Authorities have charged a former employee accused of firing on two Norcross police officers as they answered a call at an extended-stay motel. <br> <br> Gwinnett County Police spokesman Ray Dunlap says authorities charged 46-year-old Martin James Logan Monday with two counts of aggravated assault in connection with the shooting Sunday night. <br> <br> Thirty-two-year-old Norcross police officer Mark Clarence Gibbs was shot while responding to a report of threats at the Villager Lodge motel in suburban Atlanta. <br> <br> Police say Logan began firing on Gibbs and another officer when they went to evict him from the motel where he had worked as a former assistant manager before being fired. <br> <br> The second officer -- whose name was not released -- returned fire, shooting the suspect twice in the chest and once in the head. <br> <br> Both Gibbs and Logan remain hospitalized. The officer is in a drug-induced coma.

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