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DeQuan Cortez Glenn

Age : 24

Gender : Male

Race : Black

Date : 04/18/2021

Location : Chapel Hill Road near Interstate 20

City : Douglasville

County : Douglas

State : Georgia

Agency : Douglasville Police Department; Austell Police Department

Officer(s) :Edward Reeves

Cause of Death : Suicide

Event : Suicide under police duress following police chase

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

On 04/18/2021, DeQuan Cortez Glenn, 24, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after fleeing a Douglasville Police Department driver's-license and safety checkpoint on Chapel Hill Road near Interstate 20. The checkpoint was operating at approximately 2:07 a.m. when officers saw a vehicle they believed was attempting to avoid police.

Douglasville officers pursued the vehicle until it stopped and Glenn ran. Police established a perimeter and requested assistance from the Austell Police Department K-9 Unit.

Austell Police Officer Edward Reeves and K-9 Jerry Lee tracked Glenn. When they located him, gunfire was exchanged. Police alleged that Glenn shot Jerry Lee in the front leg. Reeves returned fire. Reeves then removed his wounded K-9 from the area.

Police subsequently located Glenn dead. Although an officer had fired during the encounter, the GBI reported that preliminary autopsy findings established Glenn's fatal injury as a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation conducted the independent investigation. Its statewide 2021 police-shooting index records the April 18 Douglasville incident, Glenn's identity and the involvement of the Douglasville Police Department.

OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Edward Reeves was identified as the Austell Police Department K-9 officer involved in the exchange of gunfire with Glenn. Reeves's K-9, Jerry Lee, was wounded and later underwent amputation of the injured front leg.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://gbi.georgia.gov/press-releases/2021-04-21/gbi-investigates-officer-involved-shooting-douglasville-update
https://gbi.georgia.gov/news/2022-05-20/2021-officer-involved-shootings
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/k-9-shot-suspect-dead-after-police-pursuit-in-douglasville
https://www.ajc.com/news/wounded-austell-k-9-has-leg-amputated/VF3V6PMKJNFR5HRNGNCSDKEPSY/