Man shot, killed by deputies after reportedly kidnapping children, ramming police car
Bibb County Sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a Macon man after he reportedly tied up his wife, kidnapped three children and later rammed into three police vehicles.
30-year-old Keith Young, a local history teacher, was involved in a domestic dispute in the Quail Ridge subdivision just before 6 p.m. in south Macon. According to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, Young tied up his wife and left with three children. His wife later escaped and called police. She told deputies that the couple was going through a divorce.
Young returned to the subdivision later Tuesday night while deputies were on the scene and plowed into four vehicles. One deputy was injured in the wreck. Those injuries are non-life threatening.
Young was then shot by a pair of deputies who were outside of their vehicles. They fired several shots into the truck right after the crash according to a release from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. He was taken to the Medical Center, at Navicent Health where he was treated but later died from his wounds, according to Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones.
The GBI has been called in to investigate the officer-involved shooting. It is the 42nd officer-involved shooting the GBI has been requested to investigate in 2020.
The three children have been located and are safe. They were with Young’s family and then turned over to the investigators, who reunited them with their mother around 11:30 p.m.
Young had been a senior high teacher at The Academy for Classical Education, or ACE for short, a charter school in north Bibb County, for the past two years.
Young also had served as an assistant coach for football and baseball for a short period of the time he was with ACE, according to an email from Laura Perkins, co-founder/complex principal at ACE. Young was not returning to ACE for the 2020-21 school year.
Staff writer Becky Purser contributed to this article.
This story was originally published May 19, 2020 at 11:28 PM.