Police Chief Shoots Wife In Bedroom, Calls 911

by Austin Petersen
By Casey Harper

A Georgia police chief shot his wife only a few hours into the new year, but he says it was an accident.

Peachtree City police chief William McCollom shot his wife in the bedroom of their Atlanta suburban home just after 4 a.m., CNN reports. After the shot injured his wife, McCollom called 911 and said it was an accident.

Initially McCollom told the 911 dispatcher that he had shot his wife twice, but investigators found that she had been shot once.

The police chief has not been charged in the incident as authorities investigate but is on administrative leave, NBC reports. The woman was airlifted to a hospital in critical condition.

“The department is hurting at this point,” police spokesman Lt. Mark  Brown told CNN in a statement.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into the case because of the conflict of interest, Brown said in an online statement.

The bureau did not immediately return The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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Austin Petersen is a homegrown Missourian with a lifelong passion for liberty. He grew up on a horse farm in Peculiar, Missouri and went on to attend Missouri State University, graduating with a degree in the Fine Arts. After developing a career in media in both New York City and Washington, D.C., he returned to Kansas City, MO, the city he now calls home. In 2016, Petersen appeared on the national stage as a candidate for president of the United States. He took second place in the crowded Libertarian primary behind Governor Gary Johnson and ahead of cyber security maverick John McAfee. During his campaign, Petersen earned many high-profile conservative endorsements, including Mary Matalin, Erick Erickson and Leon Wolf of RedState.com. Petersen also brings decades of professional experience in a wide variety of fields, from content production and media to business and political activism. He is the owner and chief executive of Stonegait LLC, a consulting firm specializing in photo and video services. He was also the director of production at FreedomWorks and an associate producer for Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show “Freedom Watch” on the Fox Business Network. Additionally, Petersen has a national following as a commentator and professional pundit. He is the founder of The Libertarian Republic, a powerful online news source for the public that receives an average of 1 million unique visits monthly and whose podcast, The Freedom Report, receives an average of one million monthly downloads. He is also a frequent contributor on television, appearing on Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, MSNBC and on dozens of local radio shows.

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