Officer bitten by suspect
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Posted 7:41AM on Friday 20th September 2002 ( 22 years ago )
NORCROSS - A Gwinnett County police officer has been treated at a hospital after a suspect bit him in the arm. <br>
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Police spokesman Ray Dunlap says an officer was responding to a hit-and-run call about 12:30 p.m. Thursday when two men ran out of a nearby apartment. He says they had been fighting with a knife and both were wounded. <br>
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Backup police units arrived, and one of the suspects bit a 44-year-old sergeant as the officers tried to arrest him. Dunlap says the suspect was taken to Gwinnett Medical Center with serious wounds to the stomach. <br>
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The officer also was taken to a hospital.
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