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Guillermo Bracho Barrios

Age : 39

Gender : Male

Race : Latino/a/e

Date : 10/20/2022

Location : Northside Drive and 14th Street

City : Atlanta

County : Fulton

State : Georgia

Agency : Atlanta Police Department

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Vehicle

Event : Bystander killed by police chase crash

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

REASON FOR CHASE:
Attempted traffic stop, bystander killed in subsequent chase.
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NARRATIVE:
On 10/20/2022, 39-year-old Guillermo Bracho Barrios was killed when a Toyota RAV4 fleeing an Atlanta Police Department traffic stop crashed into the Mitsubishi Outlander he was driving at Northside Drive and 14th Street in Atlanta. His front-seat passenger, 27-year-old Gemini Jerome Jackson, was also killed. Three passengers riding in the rear of Barrios's vehicle were injured.
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Shortly before the crash, an Atlanta police officer attempted to stop the white Toyota RAV4 on Northside Drive near 17th Street for a traffic violation. APD said the driver activated his right-turn signal as though he were going to pull over, then abruptly accelerated away.
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The Toyota continued south on Northside Drive and entered the intersection at 14th Street against a red light, colliding with Barrios's Mitsubishi. APD's subsequent review established that only approximately 37 seconds elapsed between the initiation of the attempted traffic stop and the fatal collision.
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Barrios and Jackson, who occupied the front seats of the Mitsubishi, were killed. Barrios was working as an Uber driver and Jackson and his colleagues were passengers in his vehicle. Three people seated in the rear were transported to Grady Memorial Hospital.
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SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.atlantapd.org/Home/Components/News/News/3317/71?arch=1&npage=109&selcat=11
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/deadly-crash-police-chase-midtown-atlanta
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/gsp-investigating-fatal-multi-vehicle-crash-midtown-atlanta/F2S57LVIRJDTJKLQGOU5MVY3SM/
https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/atlanta-police-chase-ends-in-crash-that-left-2-dead-in-midtown/OUD474PLYNGGJIE475WZRP37BM/